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

Twitter Apps Private Messages

First Posted: 06/10/11 12:24 PM ET Updated: 08/10/11 06:12 AM ET

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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.

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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 -- m...
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 -- m...
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