[google-appengine] Re: PHISHING APP retwite

2010-01-23 Thread Wooble
On Jan 23, 1:40 am, ds wrote: > The app called Retwite is faking the twitter look and asking for > passwords > > eg  http://retwite.appspot.com/cnn According to the project's github site, it's intended as a proxy of the real twitter site, not a phishing site, but I have to agree it looks suspic

[google-appengine] Re: PHISHING APP retwite

2010-01-24 Thread nickmilon
Copying the look and feel It is questionable paractice at least - I am not sure if it complies to GAE and Twitter TOS. Regards Nick Milon On Jan 24, 2:08 am, Wooble wrote: > On Jan 23, 1:40 am, ds wrote: > > > The app called Retwite is faking the twitter look and asking for > > passwords > >

[google-appengine] Re: PHISHING APP retwite

2010-01-25 Thread kaza
Hi, I would say its phishing, just look at the about page http://retwite.appspot.com/about#about and nowere on the page, especially not on the login page there is a note that its not original twiter page so its phishing i would say On 24 Jan., 01:08, Wooble wrote: > On Jan 23, 1:40 am, ds wro

[google-appengine] Re: PHISHING APP retwite

2010-01-25 Thread Wooble
True, but this is because it's just proxying the twitter site completely; any URL you throw at it will load the corresponding twitter page. Note that I'm not saying that I think this is a good idea; it's quite probably both a TOS violation and a copyright violation. However, if the source on the

[google-appengine] Re: PHISHING APP retwite

2010-01-26 Thread ds
Maybe it is useful for people in countries where Twitter is blocked. If so, best tell people so they're not caught unawares. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.

[google-appengine] Re: PHISHING APP retwite

2010-01-27 Thread nickmilon
but countries that use to block Twitter usually block google as well, so it is useless. Regards Nick On Jan 27, 7:03 am, ds wrote: > Maybe it is useful for people in countries where Twitter is blocked. > If so, best tell people so they're not caught unawares. -- You received this messag

Re: [google-appengine] Re: PHISHING APP retwite

2010-01-27 Thread Danny Tuppeny
I've seen quite a few posts from people in different countries complaining that *some* ghs IP addresses are blocked, and they often use their hosts files to hit one that isn't. So I suspect this will work for them. There are also non-countries that block twitter - companies that like to stop staff