True. But I'm pretty sure that there are more active grandfathered sources then OAuth sources. And it takes nothing to create a new OAuth application that has the same source as an existing OAuth application but with only a slightly different name.
Abraham On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 08:39, DWRoelands<duane.roela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's not correct. Updates posted to Twitter via Basic Auth always > appear with a source of "From Web" (unless the application in question > was "grandfathered in"). Otherwise, it's not possible to impersonate > another application via Basic Auth. > > On Jul 1, 9:34 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using basic auth it is already possible to use any >> source and "impersonate" another application so not much is changing >> here except better security for web applications. > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
