Security, Social Web
UserpicPower.com is blocked from accessing Facebook
Posted by Moxietype

It appears that it is much easier to rely on the content generated by the other sites than create their own. In this case I will agree with the Facebook.

Power.com asks users to provide their user names and passwords for social networks. It then accesses those outside sites as if it were the user, and allows the user to view the other site’s pages without actually visiting it.

Facebook blocked access to its site from Power.com, which “deliberately circumvented Facebook’s technological security measures in order to continue its unlawful practice of accessing Facebook’s computer systems without authorization,” the complaint stated.

Read the article on NYT.



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