Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 13th Jan 2007 09:26 UTC
Internet & Networking Last June a spin-off department of Red Hat, lead by desktop guru Havoc Pennington, announced Mugshot. Originally, Mugshot was in the midst of controversy whether it's a social networking application or not. Apparently, it instead is a "social networking aggregator". In order for this to work, access to third party data is a must.
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Cracker Attractor
by coderpunk on Sat 13th Jan 2007 13:21 UTC
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2007-01-13

Having all of your logins stored on a 3rd party system just seems like a bad idea to me. Yeah, I'm paranoid, but a juicy target like this will certainly attract attempts to gain access to all that private information. And if the site is written in PHP, well ...

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