October 10, 2007

What OAuth wants to do is allow you to give Facebook permission to see your Hotmail contacts, but not to send them email, to change your contacts, or to read your mail.

At IMified, we’re looking into the specification and we’ll be implementing support in our apps. When you give us access to post to your Google Calendar, you shouldn’t have to trust us that we won’t also be reading your email. I mean, you can trust us, but you shouldn’t have to.

Adam Kalsey, OAuth