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Items tagged twitter, phishing in 2008

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OAuth came out of my worry that if the Twitter API became popular, we’d be spreading passwords all around the web. OAuth took longer to finish than it took for the Twitter API to become popular, and as a result many Twitter users’ passwords are scattered pretty carelessly around the web. This is a terrible situation, and one we as responsible web developers should work to prevent.

Blaine Cook # 14th August 2008, 10:01 am

The statement that the password anti-pattern “teaches users to be phished” should be rephrased “has taught users to be phished”

Me, on Twitter # 13th August 2008, 12:52 pm