I am adding these notes because I believe every App Dev should strongly consider the implications their app has on the whole ecosystem of apps - and what their colleagus are doing. All it takes is one app to be really stupid to challenge whatever you are doing and create a really bad mood.
Want another, not directly app related example? http://www.mytweetspace.com/ this site first got on my radar because I scan Twitter Apps for writing about them. It used a picture of Chris Messina for advertisement on the top - of course without asking him and I am pretty sure the others at the top are some users they did not ask either. Given that I would bet that in the same way most of their offered pictures are not licenced either. Why is this relevant? Well, look how they are playing it: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/55002 Re: Displaying public user data / "tweet this" buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > I intend to address this shortly. It's not the API's intended behavior. > Of course it is not. You go for the 'oh would'nt it be cool' first and have to implement the "I can't believe people would do this' later. Thankfully most 'security people' have a sense of honor and most bad guys do not have the intelligence to make use of these tools. You learn to anticipate what bad people can do and try to be one up with them. As for normal people there is only two ways to make them use security: Restrict their access - which is what I bet most people on this list do with everybody they have to 'support' - and scare the shit out of them. I'd love to have Chad post the proof of concept after this has been fixed - the work is done and it would be a good example to give to others developping apps Nicole -- Suche Beta-Tester für Experiment: "Journalisten suchen Blogger" - http://bloxpert.de/ Kontakt: http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon // http://mit140zeichen.de/ http://crueltobekind.org // http://beissholz.de skype: nicole.simon / mailto:[email protected] phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076
