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Wed Jul 2
An interesting note came across our inboxes just now - the source of yesterday’s FriendFeed spam has been revealed. If you’ve been using the social aggregator FriendFeed, then you may have noticed some odd-looking discussions yesterday where the same comment was repeated over and over by numerous different users. The source of this spam has now been identified, but this problem highlights a larger issue that could affect any company providing an open write API for developers to use - it only takes on (via Source of FriendFeed Spam Revealed - Write APIs Can Be Trouble - ReadWriteWeb )

An interesting note came across our inboxes just now - the source of yesterday’s FriendFeed spam has been revealed. If you’ve been using the social aggregator FriendFeed, then you may have noticed some odd-looking discussions yesterday where the same comment was repeated over and over by numerous different users. The source of this spam has now been identified, but this problem highlights a larger issue that could affect any company providing an open write API for developers to use - it only takes on (via Source of FriendFeed Spam Revealed - Write APIs Can Be Trouble - ReadWriteWeb

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