http://simonwillison.net/2008-09-15T10:39:47+00:00Simon Willison2008-09-15T10:39:47+00:002008-09-15T10:39:47+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/15/google/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1141">Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts</a></strong></p> And they’re using the password anti-pattern to get them! Despite both Yahoo! and Hotmail (and Google themselves; not sure about AOL) offering a safe, OAuth-style API for retrieving contacts without asking for a password. This HAS to be a communications failure somewhere within Google. Big internet companies stand to lose the most from widespread abuse of the anti-pattern, because they’re the ones most likely to be targetted by phishers. Shameful. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ffs">ffs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hotmail">hotmail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oauth">oauth</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/passwordantipattern">passwordantipattern</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phishing">phishing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/shameful">shameful</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a></p>