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Forbes Website and Contact Sharing Requirement
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:29:26 -0500
I was reading http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/07/has-microsoft-tried-to-make-windows-8-too-secure/, and wanted to leave a comment on vendor lock-in on vendor application stores and vendor clouds (anti-trust FTW!). It appears Forbes uses OAuth, so I tried to use it against my Goggle account. Forbes asked that I share my google contacts. http://postimage.org/image/l03hq6oc7/. When I declined the sharing of my contacts, Forbes would not allow me to continue. It seems they were "requiring" and not "asking". That's a fairly flagrant party foul..... Jeff _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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