Screenshot of Twitterank.com's code comments. Pretty lame, and definitely worth changing your password if you used them.
Screenshot of Twitterank.com's code comments. Pretty lame, and definitely worth changing your password if you used them.
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katiemcb on November 13, 2008
you guys should read the article the creator wrote today, btw.
jwalkerjr on November 13, 2008
@GeekMommy you could do a lot with Twitter login credentials. For example, do you have a Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo email account? Lots of people's usernames are the same as the beginning part of their email addresses on those services...and people use the sam
CleanerLife on November 13, 2008
I have twhirl running on more than one computer at the same time accessing the same twitter account...
sfod_d223 on November 13, 2008
What does it really matter if the knucklehead steals your password, what can be done with it?
nateritter on November 13, 2008
@manfmnantucket (1) yes, they are code comments. (2) It wasn't on the FAQ page when I looked. This was the index page.
seriousron on November 13, 2008
yeah seems sketch for sure, good call putting up the source screen shot. @lauterhaus your twitter ranking is 1.68 that is ace in my book
manfmnantucket on November 13, 2008
those are not code comments, its actually text that appears on the FAQ page, which caused me to skip trying it actually
nateritter on November 13, 2008
@ochaua1 Point well taken (at least for me and so many others). I hope Twitter gets it.
radix33 on November 13, 2008
If you use Twitter to connect with your clients, having the account compromised can be a black eye.
ochua1 on November 13, 2008
I believe the author was trying to make a point that @Twitter must implement OAuth because many sites can do this!
nateritter on November 13, 2008
@lauterhaus You used to be able to read it on the page, but now it's commented out. Either way, I wouldn't give this person my info.
lauterhaus on November 13, 2008
this is exactly what it says on the page. you can read it *before* submitting your info!
GeekMommy on November 13, 2008
I stand corrected - didn't look at the source code - but how annoyingly stupid is that? What would you do w/twitter logins?
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