Re: Weiner's Twitter Tweak
Lowell Prange <lowell-CpNyDYp8yLhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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That is true. Even though the "random" email was pretty easy to crack, it is even easier for someone to just know it. Since it is not typically treated as a password, it could be stored many places and on many devices as plain text. So it is a security fail on many levels. Maybe, a little brilliant for making the service super easy to use. But it was asking to be abused. On 6/5/2011 10:59 PM, Karl Swenson wrote: > Wasn't there the tiny detail of knowing it (the random email)? Did I miss > something? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 7:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Weiner's Twitter Tweak > >> Well, having a randomly generated email address you had to use was > similar to a password. > > Yeah... But it allowed people to post stuff to your Twitter account with no > need for knowing your password. > > > > Thom > http://thomwade.wordpress.com/ > http://www.cafepress.com/Thomwade > http://www.in-one-ear.com > _______________________________________ > "I want a song to learn and sing, of a life requited."-Echo& the > Bunnymen > > > > > > > -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot