[Voting included] Weapon/Security against *Viral Tweets* & similar password-sucking "twitter-tools"

[sellingonline]

Okay, I just stumbled across Your Twitter Account Has Been Hacked... And *You* Are To Blame?

and I could have posted it there, but then it would not reach most of you, buried down on page xx of the thread - hence here to help as many people as possible to protect their data:

For those of you concerned about "Viral Tweets" sucking your twitter password out of you in order to optin for "whatever" - a little hint for you:

(1) click source code on the webpage requiring you to give out your password to ViralTwitter

(2) look for "twitter_redirect" in the source and there you go, the URL you are redirected after giving out your information in plain text to copy/paste.

This also works for other Twitter-Tools, "Viral Tweets" is just the most annoying one.

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At the end what I think is, that it's sad some "marketers" force us to get creative, but in order to protect my accounts / private information I go looong ways - and of course, I remember the people trying to get me into exposing myself to get "free reports" - an email into an optin form is one thing, getting my passwords a very very different story...

Hope that helps somebody -> always remember to be careful with your data, period.


PS: Yes, I don't exactly "love" "Viral Tweets" - in fact if I wouldn't have decided to not use the word ha.e anymore, I would have used it)

Oh and btw, if the owner/programmer of "Viral Tweets" is a member here: Sorry, but your tool could easily work without exposing passwords and you know that -> fix it and all is good, don't fix it and you have to stand the critiques, end of story.


((( Or what do you guys think? I personally don't use tools requiring my subscribers to expose and unnecessary private information - never, I would feel terrible simply knowing it!! )))