http://simonwillison.net/2008-08-09T10:18:28+00:00Simon Willison2008-08-09T10:18:28+00:002008-08-09T10:18:28+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/9/facebook/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/08/facebook-security-advice-never-ever-enter-your-passwords-on-another-site-unless-we-ask-you-to/">Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To</a></strong></p> Nice to see TechCrunch highlighting the hypocrisy of Facebook advising their users to never enter their Facebook credentials on another site, then asking them for their webmail provider password so they can scrape their address book. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/facebook">facebook</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hypocrisy">hypocrisy</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/passwordantipattern">passwordantipattern</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/passwords">passwords</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/techcrunch">techcrunch</a></p>