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OAuth on Twitter Won’t Replace Your BrainYesterday

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Twitter has problems. Or Twitter users have problems. It depends on how you see things. Not only passwords were sold together with a Twitter application (see my recent post on the topic) but also users got phished and accounts of some celebrities got hacked. Really bad news!

Now people think Twitter needs some better authorization methods of third party applications and demand OAuth implementation. Even a website was launched: Please, Twitter, Implement OAuth Now!. Indeed OAuth is a solution and it’s great that more people feel the need for safer authorization. While it is a noble initiative, I feel a little bit uncomfortable when seeing some blind retweets of the message on Twitter. Basically, there are two reasons:

  1. OAuth didn’t prevent the recent phishing
Robert Basic - Studierter BaitologeYesterday

Unfassbar. Robert Basic gibt vor, sein Blog verkaufen zu wollen und alle machen, was er von ihnen erwartet hat.

Jeder, der noch 2 funktionierende Gehirnzellen sein eigen nennen darf, weiß, dass das nicht passieren wird. Trotzdem tun alle so, als ob (oder verfügen nur noch über Erbsenhirne, Sie entscheiden).

Er wird natürlich nicht verkaufen. Er lebt direkt (Werbung auf der Site) und indirekt (Konsulting) von basicthinking. Mit dem Verkauf würde er etwas aufgeben, dass er heute so nicht mehr ohne weiteres wieder neu aufbauen könnte. Mehr schreibe ich gar nicht dazu, weil es mir zu blöd ist, noch mehr zu erklären.

Das, was Robert hier gemacht hat, ist klassisches Linkbaiting. Gegen Linkbaits, also Artikel, die zum Darauflinken anregen sollen, gibt es an sich nichts einzuwenden.

Linkbaits können Scoops sein, Listen von nützlichen Webdiensten, Programmen und anderem, oder eine besonders interessante oder kontroverse Sichtweise auf ein bestimmtes Thema. Letzteres beherrscht Techcrunchs Michael Arrington besonders gut, wie sein Buddy Steve Gillmor hier ausführlich darlegt.

Der Unterschied zwischen diesen Beispielen und dem, was Robert meistens macht: Die Link

Will the Online Identity War turn out like the XML Syndication War?Yesterday

I've been spending some time thinking about the ramifications of centralized identity plays coming back into vogue with the release of Facebook Connect, MySpaceID and Google's weird amalgam Google Friend Connect. Slowly I began to draw parallels between the current situation and a different online technology battle from half a decade ago.

About five years ago, one of the most contentious issues among Web geeks was the RSS versus Atom debate. On the one hand there was RSS 2.0, a widely deployed and fairly straightforward XML syndication format which had some ambiguity around the spec but whose benevolent dictator had declared the spec frozen to stabilize the ecosystem around the technology.  On the other hand you had the Atom syndication format, an up and coming XML syndication format backed by a big company (Google) and a number of big names in the Web standards world (Tim Bray, Sam Ruby,

Monday Morning MadnessJanuary 5
This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been "hacked" including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama (who has not been Twittering since becoming the president elect due to transition issues). We immediately locked down the accounts and investigated the issue. Rick, Barack, and others are now back in control of their accounts.

What Happened?

The issue with these 33 accounts is different from the Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users this weekend. These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account when they can't remember or get stuck. We considered this a very serious breach of security and immediately took the support tools offline. We'll put them back only when they're safe and secure.

Reacting Quickly and Fixing the Problems

In addition to this Monday morning madness we're coming off a wacky weekend where lots of folks were tricked into participating in a Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users. In both cases, our on-call team was able to attend to the matter quickly and prevent too many people from being affected. Our support team is definitely going to have a busy week because we