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[mike at trausch.us (mike at trausch.us)]

On 04/09/2012 11:28 AM, Sparr wrote:
> Google has a secondary permission system for outside systems wanting
> to access your contacts, in a similar vein to their OpenID
> implementation, which is unrelated to your primary authentication
> mechanism (whether that's two factor or not)

Call me crazy, but I call that a minimum basic requirement these days.

I refuse to provide my UN/PWD for service X to service Y (where X != Y,
obviously), even if both are run by the same company.

But in this case, it's probably the FB application itself misbehaving on
a smartphone.  FB is _wonderful_ for crazy stuff like that.  Welcome to
the modern era, where the biggest problem in IT is idiots without a
security-focused mind writing systems...

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, ?Logic?

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