Comments on: How web services punish you http://theunfocused.net/2008/10/11/how-web-services-punish-you/ And Other Unfocused Things Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:25:33 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sky http://theunfocused.net/2008/10/11/how-web-services-punish-you/#comment-20 sky Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:21:43 +0000 http://theunfocused.net/?p=65#comment-20 If you're describing a UI that forces a user to copy and paste a key to another service, then that's stupid, because it's easy enough to make a protocol that handshakes between the services after the user's permission. But getting the user's permission per-application isn't stupid at all. unless ZERO information is being shared with the other service (including username), then I'd prefer the web service verify that I want that information shared (if I haven't marked it public). If you’re describing a UI that forces a user to copy and paste a key to another service, then that’s stupid, because it’s easy enough to make a protocol that handshakes between the services after the user’s permission.

But getting the user’s permission per-application isn’t stupid at all. unless ZERO information is being shared with the other service (including username), then I’d prefer the web service verify that I want that information shared (if I haven’t marked it public).

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