It’s training people not to care

If you’ve ever granted permission for a service to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account, you’ve used oAuth.
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But this convenience creates a new risk. It’s training people not to care.
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For Twitter, the consequences are unlikely to be serious since almost all activity is public. For Facebook, a mass leak of private Facebook photos could certainly be embarrassing.
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But for Gmail, I’m very concerned that it opens a major security flaw that’s begging to be exploited.

Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox, via Xeni Jardin: The risk of using apps that access your Gmail account.

Sinon, pour parler de presque autre chose, si vous êtes utilisateur de Instagram, ça vous fait quel effet d’avoir été vendu à Facebookde valoir un milliard de dollars ?