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June 10, 2011 06:26 pm GMT

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

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.Colijn created this test application to prove that the anomaly with the authorization process actually exists. You can use a dummy account if you're not comfortable clicking anything on that page, but I just ran a test with my personal Twitter account. Sure enough, I was shown an authorization screen that explicitly told me that the app would not be able to access my private messages ... after which it swiftly did in mere seconds.

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