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To be fair, they specifically mention that they use OAuth for Gmail/GApps. It seems like they're aware of this but it's hardly their responsibility to avoid bu

• rhizome 13y ago
  It seems like they're aware of this but it's hardly their responsibility to avoid building a hack such as this... Is that so? "Fsck the world, we got a business to run?"
  • tekacs 13y ago
    How about "the world isn't perfect and whilst it would be great to live up to our every ideal, our primary responsibility is running a business and providing a great experience for our users who, ultimately, in the vast majority regularly engage in such egregious violations of sensible security protocol that most-anything we do is unlikely to affect them and in cases where it would, said users are usually sufficiently literate to wish to avoid this anyway".
    • rhizome 13y ago
      That's a pretty long-winded explication of, "it's a race to the bottom."
      • tekacs 13y ago
        It's a pretty long-winded explanation of "the world ain't perfect". :P