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Posted on June 10, 2008

Last week, Jeff Atwood had a great post looking at how many social networking-based services try to jump-start your profiles by letting you add friends by tapping into e-mail accounts such as GMail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail.At first blush, it seems like a good idea until you realize that you re giving these sites access to your username and password that are closely associated with your online identity and personal/financial information.It got me thinking about the hundreds of Web sites in which I ve provided personal information to some degree over the past few years. As an enthusiastic be...

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