GNU socialhttps://nu.federati.net/api/statusnet/conversation/2557827.atomConversation2024-03-29T15:18:20+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/notetag:nu.federati.net,2023-03-18:noticeId=3422987:objectType=noteNew note by lnxw48a1<a href="https://www.mx.com/blog/screen-scraping-vs-bank-apis-whats-the-difference/" title="https://www.mx.com/blog/screen-scraping-vs-bank-apis-whats-the-difference/" rel="nofollow external noreferrer" class="attachment" id="attachment-289936">https://www.mx.com/blog/screen-scraping-vs-bank-apis-whats-the-difference/</a> [www mx com] <br /> <br /> Discusses bank APIs versus screen scraping, but leaves off a major issue, IMO. Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a person can be prosecuted for giving their login info to someone else when a site's ToS forbids it. (Hint: almost all sites forbid it.) <br /> <br /> Typically, this is not prosecuted unless the account gets used for nefarious purposes, but the potential is there. Likewise for Facebook's "give us access to your e-mail account so we can find all your contacts' FB accounts".3422987http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2023-03-18T19:25:58+00:002023-03-18T19:25:58+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://nu.federati.net/user/2lnxw48a1Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .lnxw48a1LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .{58024A03-1021-499E-B14D-DF4537889BF8}tag:nu.federati.net,2023-03-18:objectType=thread:nonce=b7e02c0146b35993