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Jtrentadams bookmarked on 2008-07-01 dataportability social networking
  • Chris Saad, cofounder and chair of the nonprofit ­DataPortability
    Project, notes that many current methods of transferring data expose users to
    huge security risks. For example, it's a common practice for social sites to
    ask users to submit the usernames and passwords for their Web-based e-mail
    accounts when they first sign up; an automated service can then search the
    network for people listed in their address books. "The door is open right now
    for any application that scrapes your Gmail address book to go ahead and scrape
    your shopping cart as well, or scrape your searches, or keep your username and
    password and pretend to be you," says Saad. "It's a nightmare of security, and
    it's something we need to solve sooner rather than later."

This link has been bookmarked by 2 people . It was first bookmarked on 27 Jun 2008, by Nancy Hancock.

  • 01 Jul 08
    jtrentadams
    Trent Adams

    dataportability social networking

    • Chris Saad, cofounder and chair of the nonprofit ­DataPortability
      Project, notes that many current methods of transferring data expose users to
      huge security risks. For example, it's a common practice for social sites to
      ask users to submit the usernames and passwords for their Web-based e-mail
      accounts when they first sign up; an automated service can then search the
      network for people listed in their address books. "The door is open right now
      for any application that scrapes your Gmail address book to go ahead and scrape
      your shopping cart as well, or scrape your searches, or keep your username and
      password and pretend to be you," says Saad. "It's a nightmare of security, and
      it's something we need to solve sooner rather than later."
  • 27 Jun 08
    nancyshancock
    Nancy Hancock

    who controls the
    data
    users post on their profiles?
    Advocates of so-called data portability, including Scoble and Smarr, say people
    should be able to transfer information easily in and out of any Web services
    they use. Facebook, on the other hand, says it needs to safeguard the
    information it stores so that it isn't misused, and that means keeping tight
    control over users' information.

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