justin
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Re: Secure, but inconvenient
they may get together and offer a standard XML based message query interface. And then someone can develop a message monitoring app that can keep track of multiple sites.
But then the phishers will work with the trojan writers to infect the local app and the battle will move on... |
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Bobby_Peru
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| said by justin:
they may get together and offer a standard XML based message query interface. And then someone can develop a message monitoring app that can keep track of multiple sites. Great idea!
said by justin:
But then the phishers will work with the trojan writers to infect the local app and the battle will move on... Grinch! 
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Jason Levine
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This type of thing is why secure RSS (RSS dynamically generated using a username and password to authorize the user) would be so nice. Imagine if you could set your RSS feedreader to download your eBay Message Center messages using your eBay username/password, your BBR post list using your BBR username/password, etc. This method would be nearly immune* to spamming, phishing, or password sniffing.
*Immune, that is, assuming that the local computer hasn't been trojaned. Once a PC's security is breached, all bets go out the window.
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| well if RSS requests were automatically made with any domain cookies then they could be personalized. RSS readers in-built into browsers could certainly do that. There is nothing stopping XML servers from checking login cookies and producing personal content. |
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