Google’s OpenSocial Hacked!
Looks like someone got working on Google’s Opensocial API. Within 45 minutes of releasing "emote", Plaxo’s OpenSocial application got hacked…
A developer who goes by the alias “theharmonyguy” and describes himself as “just an amateur” claims to have compromised the RockYou OpenSocial application on Plaxo called emote (see the Plaxo blog
for details on the application). Specifically, he claims to have added a number of emoticons to Plaxo VP Marketing John McCrea’s profile within 45 minutes of it launching.
One of the dangers I think of people moving more and more into the web (putting documents and spreadsheets in Google Apps, private information into social networks) is security. Most hackers wouldn’t bother hacking into the PC’s of nameless individuals but there certainly is a lot of incentive for them to hack Google Docs or create applications that will allow people to peek at anyone’s private data in a social network (or worse even modify them). Hmmm time for "The Net" sequel…
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