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Third-Party Twitter Apps Can Access Your Private Messages Without Authorization

posted onJune 10, 2011
by l33tdawg

Any third-party Twitter app developer can currently ask you to authorize software using OAuth under the pretense that they will not be able to access any of your private – both sent and received – messages, while in fact they easily can. TechCrunch was contacted by developer Simon Colijn, who hopes to make as many people aware of this privacy issue – or disaster, if you will – as possible.