That's simply not true. When you manually register an application you agree to legal terms with how you may or may not use the user's data you are accessing and other legal requirements. Without this agreement, users could sue the service provider for bad acts by the application.
EHL > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Martin Atkins > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [oauth] Re: Security through obscurity? > > > Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: > > But it does make the lawyers happy. > > > > Maybe the lawyers ought to listen to the technical folks telling them > that requiring pre-registration of desktop apps achieves nothing > whatsoever. > > It can't be healthy to have lawyers who believe they have an effective > mechanism that is in fact completely ineffective. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" 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/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
