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How is this possible? Avoid Registering if you have yahoo gm

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:28 pm
by matt1019
Hi guys,

One of the sites I visited today has this feature:

If you are a member of either Yahoo, Gmail, or MSN you can completely skip the "Registration" Part and "Log in" using your Yahoo/Gmail/MSN username and password.

My Question is, how in the world is this possible? I mean.... what is the connection between the site and yahoo/gmail/msn ?

thanks, I look forward to the replies, as I can't wait to learn this!

-Matt

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:26 pm
by tecktalkcm0391
what site is it?

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:40 pm
by Ward
Sounds fishy. Make sure they're not just stealing your Yahoo/Gmail/MSN account...

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:42 pm
by Benjamin
There are scripts available which given a username/password, will login to your yahoo/gmail/etc accounts and copy your entire address book. I don't trust this capability as your flat out giving them the email addresses of everyone you know and a lot of times it's probably used for spam. Additionally with access to your Email, they can access a lot of other things as well...

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:54 pm
by matt1019
tecktalkcm0391 wrote:what site is it?
Hi, I do not know if it would be proper for me to link to the site.... therefore, if you (MOD/ADMIN) find it in-approprite, please delete the following line:

Hi Tecktalk, it's http://www.xuqa.com


@astions:
There are scripts available which given a username/password, will login to your yahoo/gmail/etc accounts and copy your entire address book.
what are those scripts called?

thanks,

-Matt

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:57 pm
by Benjamin
I don't remember ever hearing them called anything in particular. You might want to look around on hotscripts.com or something similar.