Expect all Free Mobile Apps to leak your Data – Finextra (blog)
Expect all Free Mobile Apps to leak your DataFinextra (blog)Mashable.com says that recently over 98,000 photos have been leaked from Snapsaved.com, which has shut down. The Snapchat app makers won't take any credit, even though previously, 4.7 million phone numbers and usernames were leaked.
Twitter Bets On Phone Numbers As The Ultimate Login (readwriteweb)
Twitter's new suite of developers tools includes a simple login option which allows people to sign up for apps and services with only a phone number—no email required.
Digits is a free option offered as part of Fabric, three-part developers kit introduced Wednesday at the Twitter Flight developer's conference in San Francisco. With Digits, Twitter is taking an identity more personal than perhaps our email or Twitter handles to login to apps—our phone numbers.
People simply put in their phone number to receive a confirmation code, and it works with anyone in almost any country, thanks to availability in 216 countries at launch.
> **See also: Twitter Unveils Its New Developer Toolkit—Fabric**
Digits also allows people to interact with applications and services without downloading an app in the first place. McDonalds is one of Twitter's early Fabric partners, and uses Digits to let customers take advantage of offers in McDonalds' apps without downloading an application. When someone receives an offer from a friend with a McDonalds app via a text message, it can be redeemed by entering a phone number in the browser window.
Because Digits is fully white-labelled, it won't even look like a Twitter product, rather …
