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Sure it makes sense to them, they don't know what they are doing. What I find hard to believe is that the ones that complain about these kinds of mechanisms do
by DougBTX 18y ago
Sure it makes sense to them, they don't know what they are doing.
What I find hard to believe is that the ones that complain about these kinds of mechanisms don't understand that themselves are not part of the target of said mechanism.
These mechanisms are prominently shown to all users of the web site who want to import contacts, whether they are technical or not. There isn't a banner above them which says, "this feature is aimed only at people who don't understand the security implications."
Making money by teaching someone to compromise their security is a morally bad thing to do, whether that person knows they are being taught to put themselves at risk or not.
- rglullis 18y agoI'm sorry, but I just disagree. I don't see any wrongdoing in this, provided they do what they actually state they do. If they take your password and do nasty things with it, than it's a whole other story. There isn't a banner above them which says, "this feature is aimed only at people who don't understand the security implications." If you do understand the security implications, then the banner is irrelevant! Also, they are not saying that you must use the feature either, are they? What happened to freewill? Does everyone think that you are supposed to consume every feature of the service just because it's free and it's there? And to say they are "teaching to compromise security" is a gross dramatization. They are not teaching anything at all.