fort9.blog » Bad Stuff http://blog.fort9.be The Fort9 blog Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:27:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Why CoComment is a dangerous thing http://blog.fort9.be/2008/03/17/why-cocomment-is-a-dangerous-thing/ http://blog.fort9.be/2008/03/17/why-cocomment-is-a-dangerous-thing/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:51:20 +0000 Kevin http://blog.fort9.be/2008/03/17/why-cocomment-is-a-dangerous-thing/ CoComment is a service that can follow the comments made on threads you flag. You can even use a very nice plugin to help you do this more easily. I use it and I like it. But today I noticed something nasty.

I got a mail via Flickr about my Song Charts. Someone is starting a blog to collect them and asked to use mine. I replied, and then I saw this:

reply

Yes, the plugin was registering this as something it could follow. So I did. And guess what!

cocomment

That’s right, all your FlickrMail are belong to us. If you have a Flickr account, and have sent mails to other people on Flickr via this service, your message is in there.

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