Stop Sharing Your Twitter Credentials
At Twitpay, we obviously needed to work with Twitter, and since they don’t yet offer OAuth (or something similar) yet, we explored the options on how best to do this. There has been a proliferation lately of sites that ask you to provide your username and password to other sites in order to exploit some sort of functionality, usually searching through your address book. While this tradeoff of security for convenience may be worth it in the short term in order to “get something done”, unless you are using a different password for every site you visit (which is not the case for the VAST majority of users), it is NEVER a good idea.
December 10, 2008, 11:45am
