Phacebook phun (Uncle disgusting, security hat. You know the drill)

[hirez]

You know all those apps y'all are playing with on Friendface? (Farmville, for instance, just leaps off the page[1

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[quercus]

The annoying bit is that the farcebook API actually seems well thought out(*), so you have to be a total careless muppet to build a dodgy app on top of it.

(*) as in, "better thought out than most Enterprise stuff in the same slot (see "LDAP lookups for authentication")

[hirez]

LDAP...

Oh God.

[quercus]

SSO: Serious Snake Oil

[hirez]

[FX: Boggle]

I've taken to answering those sorts of question with 'No. Kerberos.' and then providing worked examples for java/perl/apache/radius/weenix/solaris.