[R-390] Sorry for the spam

[Bob Camp]

Hi

We all better get used to the double verification / per app key stuff. That’s about the only way things like email / Dropbox / (lists?) will work with any level of security in the future. Yes (as you have found) they don’t have the bugs quite out of it yet. 

Bob

On Aug 31, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I had installed an app on my android tablet this morning and it sent
> emails to my contact list. (Quora). I have since deleted the app.
> 
> I use the rather crazy double verification system through gmail where each
> application has its own authentication key. The Quora application used my
> gmail account on Android to send out stuff. I saw lots of bounces. My gmail
> account had permissions but quora did not so quora hijacked the connection
> to send spam.
> 
> -- 
> Ms. Tisha Hayes. AA4HA
> 
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