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[Tim]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 06:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> in many cases the offer to send "invites" is buried in
> the T&C's when you sign up. 

Along with a sign-up procedure that asks you to, "enter your hotmail
address and password," which most people stupidly do.

It really is a no-brainer to steal people's passwords and (not actually)
hack their account.  You see that sort of thing on countless services.

You take a /bit/ of a risk giving services like Hotmail and Google your
other email addresses and passwords, so that they can "import your
contacts."  You take a huge risk when you do the converse with random
websites.

Unfortunately, smartening up webservices so they didn't give out your
details, and your friends details, such as allowing a division of
addresses into friends and non-friends, or configuration options about
protecting your data, isn't going to help one iota, when people are
idiots.

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