Why Twitter's New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web of Mashups - ReadWriteWeb
Fri, Jan 23rd, 2009
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Microblogging service Twitter's habit of playing fast and loose with user passwords may be coming to an end, if a technical trial started today can be successfully implemented by its development team. Earlier this month, the company saw the accounts of users from Barack Obama to Fox News to Britney Spears get "hacked." More importantly, millions of Twitter users hand out their passwords to strangers every day, because there's no other way to access the fabulous ecosystem of applications built on top of the famous Twitter data platform, or API.
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