On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:09:10PM -0800, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Now, will there be hackers and scammers that will decompile > TweetDeck's code to get their grubby hands on its Consumer Key Secret? > You bet your bottom dollar there will be. Many. > > Once they have that, they can spam the living shits out of Twitter, > and there is nothing, NOTHING, Twitter can do to stop it.
Twitter or anyone else. This is the same basic issue as that faced by DRM manufacturers: It is fundamentally impossible for me to allow you to cryptographically authenticate yourself without providing the necessary crypto keys and algorithms to you in some form. Once I have done so, there is no way to prevent you from using them in ways other than those which I intended. -- Dave Sherohman
