Extra Future

Day: September 10, 2010

  • YouTube Instant

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Start typing, it auto-fetches the most relevant video and starts playing it.][link] [link]: http://feross.net/instant/ “YouTube Instant”

  • Compromising Twitter’s OAuth security system

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Ryan Paul for Ars:][link] >Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company’s transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter’s extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. This article will explore some of the problems with Twitter’s OAuth implementation and some…