Hmm.. I don't know if I'm all for the idea of robots/gadgets yet. I guess it'll be a trial and see kinda thing. I'll have to wait for an invite I suppose.
On Sep 27, 8:49 am, Avital Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > Robots act exactly like people. People can do the same things - join many > waves and after a while when people trust them blast them with spam. These > people would be banned and never be able to join these waves again. Robots > should be given the same treatment. > > Remember, there's no real distinction between a person and a robot. A robot > might send events to a person and have a person respond and a person might > run an automated client that acts as a robot. > > --http://thewe.net > > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Once damage has already been done though, this won't be very helpful. > > That's sort of like saying "You can remove a virus once it has already > > infected your computer and deleted your important files." > > > There needs to be something proactive in place to prevent a robot/ > > gadget from running. A user not only needs to be the one that adds the > > virus, but also the one who enables it to have access to parts of the > > wave. > > > In example. A user installs a robot. Maybe via a dialogue box, they > > have the opportunity to enable that robot permission to join a wave, > > another option to enable it to add things to the wave, and another to > > allow it to edit parts of the conversation. > > > Users need to have control over all aspects of the gadgets/robots, or > > else someone will have the ability to create robots/gadgets that can > > be destructive. The creators could maliciously make the gadgets look > > like something they are not (like trojans) and then users might > > install those gadgets, become infected by them, and they could then > > cause harm upon that user's wave. > > > On Sep 25, 9:28 am, James Purser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 06:20 -0700, Tyler wrote: > > > > This is the biggest thing I was worried about. Is there a setting > > > > somewhere to disable robots altogether for your account? They have a > > > > lot of power that could easily be abused by people with bad > > > > intentions. Advertisers could create robots that insert adds > > > > throughout messages in hopes of making some money, ie Adware. And > > > > there's always tracking code that could be inserted ie Spyware. Ick... > > > > There needs to be a lot of control over these. > > > > Robots and Gadgets cannot add themselves to existing waves, they need to > > > be added by already existing participants (human ones at that I > > > believe). > > > > You will also be able to remove Robots and Gadgets from waves if they > > > start to misbehaving. > > > > -- > > > James Purser > > > Collaborynthhttp://collaborynth.com.au > > > Mob: +61 406 576 553 > > > Skype: purserj1977 > > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/purserj --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
