Owner, viewer, friends, friends of viewer ... all that info is readily
accessible and can easily be stored on a server with a simple ajax
request.
I'd imagine this plays out like computer software has .... only
trusted (and audited) gadgets are included in the social site's list,
and a big warning about external non-trusted sources on adding custom
gadgets (which is already a shame for the garage gadget makers).
But as we know end-users don't care to contemplate to much about
security, they just want to do their thing, so a vast majority won't
notice the warning, and some email and data stealing gadgets will make
their way to all the social sites.
But hey, maybe someone less cynical about security then me will have
some great ideas to combat this, but i think it will probably end up
that to privacy sensitive / easily abused information (such as email
addresses) will be taken out of the Person object, and instead you get
an server side API for sending emails to a Person, without ever seeing
what the email addy was..
ps Didn't we go thru the same thing with CC information a decade ago?
Now for the vast majority of CC actions, the information is contained
within the transaction provider (paypal, ogone, bibit, etc) and that
info never touches the transaction recieving side; So i imagine thats
the way this will go too.
-- Chris
On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Good point. It would be easy enough to make any kind of widget that
> stores VIEWER information, such as name, profile url, image and maybe
> even email.
>
> Spam tool if I ever heard of one. It will be interesting to see if
> anyone has any ideas to combat this.
>
>
>
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