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  1. Visit Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/08/facebook-security-advice-never-ever-enter-your-passwords-on-another-site-unless-we-ask-you-to/

    I never thought I'd find myself linking to and agreeing with a post on TechC*nt but it's good to see somebody pointing out Facebook's hypocrisy with using the password anti-pattern.

  2. Visit Mickipedia » Blog Archive » Social Networking Fatigue. I has it. Mickipedia » Blog Archive » Social Networking Fatigue. I has it.

    http://www.mickipedia.com/?p=1174

    Good Reads is responsible for one of the most egregious abuses of trust — using the password anti-pattern to spam your address book. Micki has the details.

  3. Visit Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.html

    An excellent rant by Jeff Atwood that explains just why the password anti-pattern is such an abhorrent practice: "How did we end up in a world where it's even remotely acceptable to ask for someone's email credentials?"

  4. Visit Yahoo! Address Book API - YDN Yahoo! Address Book API - YDN

    http://developer.yahoo.com/addressbook/

    You can know use an API (with BBAuth) to get contact Yahoo account contact details. There really is no excuse now for still using the password anti-pattern.

  5. Visit Spokeo? More like Spooky-o; bad practice taken to the extreme. at Aral Balkan Spokeo? More like Spooky-o; bad practice taken to the extreme. at Aral Balkan

    http://aralbalkan.com/1241

    Aral points to what is possibly the most egregious password anti-pattern implementation yet: a new startup called Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com/public/join

  6. Visit Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html

    A cautionary tale that explains just why the password anti-pattern needs to die. Coding horror indeed: in this case, 1,777 GMail accounts were compromised.

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