On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote:
>>> there will be much more information about this soon.  in general, the
>>> API for browser-less apps is designed for applications or environments
>>> that are unable to bring up a web browser -- desktop clients,
>>> presumably, can still bring up a web page?
>>
>> What about text-only client such as TTYtter or the myriad of automatic
>> systems? Unless you make the OAuth page accessible over Lynx, which
>> would be cool, but I doubt. :)
>
> i wouldn't qualify a text-only client as a desktop client :P
>
> more detail will be coming - but, in general, i would ask developers
> to think about privacy from their users' standpoint :P

I've got a number of shell scripts that I run via 'curl --netrc' with
my password stored in ~/.netrc

How will OAuth work with this scenario?

I don't need anyone else's password, just my own.

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