Services that want your e-mail password to import your contacts?

[Crow550]

Like FaceBook or Skype asking for your e-mail info to look at your address book to find people on those services?

More & more services are asking this for convenience factor....

The say they never store your password.....But still.....

Hope I cleared up what I'm saying. I would not want to enter my e-mail password for facebook & such.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

never, fuck that

 

[lxskllr]

Never give anybody any password, for any reason.

 

[Maximus96]

this is borderlining rocket science or brain surgery but you can always change your password after importing the contacts...

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: Crow550
Like FaceBook or Skype asking for your e-mail info to look at your address book to find people on those services?

How safe and secure is it?

Are you fucking retarded or something?

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
never, fuck that

agree

 

[Zeeky Boogy Doog]

It's exactly as "safe & secure" as people are honest.

 

[SonnyDaze]

If it's on the internet it must be safe.

 

[Crow550]

I was just asking because it seems to be a trend with more & more services.

Give them access to your e-mail and they will import your contacts to see if there on that service. They claim to not store passwords....

Just posting this because think of how many people willfully do this.

 

[TwiceOver]

I get crap every couple days from friends that were dumb enough to do this. Safe? Maybe, I'm sure there's some sort of privacy policy regarding your password... That doesn't mean they aren't going to spam the shit out of your contacts.

 

[skyking]

NOW I know how I got those invites to facebook and myspace from friends!!@#!%^&&##

 

[Lifted]

Personally, I prefer the convenience of paypal offering to verify my online bank account by giving them my password. They already had my Name, Age, Address, SSN, DOB... I figured hell, they already have everything else. I've also heard such great things about their honest employees that I decided if I was going to give anyone my online banking password, it would definitely be paypal.

 

[Pepsei]

how hard is it to change your password after the import?

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Maximus96
this is borderlining rocket science or brain surgery but you can always change your password after importing the contacts...

mean while a spam bot is sending out emails to everyone on your friends list..