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Google / Plaxo OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes

Went Hot: November 4, 2007 - 5:37 pm
Posted By: graywolf 610 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media

It didn’t take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes.

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from lasellers 609 days ago #

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Well. I guess all this means is that maybe you CAN write a nifty Open Social app pretty quickly one afternoon if you wanted like they were emphasizing ....but maybe that's not really a GOOD idea. Taking, oh, a week or three to properly go through the code, add error-handling, security features and generally debug and harden the app might be better.

The problem seems to be people are being too quick to add these untested app into a live system without any kind of proper checks being done first. Understandable I guess. There are some pretty nifty features potentially available. Open Social is, afterall, esentially the first "Web 3.0" platform that's widely available that I know of.

from lasellers 609 days ago #

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Good grounding video with original Open social creators demoing the first week of Open Social:

http://blip.tv/file/463437

(A bit long though.)