[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords

[wjhonson at aol.com]

 That's interesting.? Someone signs up with service X to pull details from your service Y that perhaps you don't want the world to know.? Like that you've watchlisted Oral Sex.

How do I, as service X make sure that you as Service Y actually have the user's approval for this pulling of my data ?

Seems like, in-project we would need some sort of user-embedded flag to say "Talk with service Y it's OK!"? That would be the only secure way to do it, wouldn't it?

Will Johnson



 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 11:56 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for  Wikimedia passwords










Update: The developer of watchlistr is now discussing on wikitech-l
how to do this on the toolserver, and how to authenticate without
passwords being saved on the toolserver (which is not allowed).
Further detail no doubt to come :-)


- d.



2009/7/22 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> fyi

> From: Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com>
> Date: 2009/7/22
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for
> Wikimedia passwords
> To: wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org

> I'm not sure what to do about this; it seems like a good idea but a
> major security risk:
> http://www.watchlistr.com/ is a site that creates aggregate watchlists
> across multiple projects. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bounty_board#Transwiki_watchlist_tool

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