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Wow, offering to log into an account that holds contact information in order to retrieve those contacts and automatically invite them to connect with you. I'm g
by MrDOS 13y ago
Wow, offering to log into an account that holds contact information in order to retrieve those contacts and automatically invite them to connect with you. I'm glad the innovation will both start and stop here – it's a good thing MySpace never did this. Or Facebook. Or any one of a million other services. I'm not trying to detract from the potential severity of anyone actually going ahead and doing it, but OP, is this seriously the first time you've seen something like this? I'm very surprised.
- xauronx 13y agoI think the issue was with it actually asking for the password itself. If it were an OAuth screen he probably wouldn't have blinked. Would I have shaken my head and even MAYBE deleted my account if I were having a bad day? Maybe. Would I write a blog post about it even if I did? No.
- dripton 13y agoI've seen it once before. Udacity did it to me a few years ago when I signed up for a course, and I closed that account too. I'm not surprised that MySpace or Facebook does it, but those sites are so transparently bad that I never considered joining them, so it didn't affect me personally.