Naming and Shaming Toxic Web Apps

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 5, 2010 @06:55AM from the running-this-requires-access-to-your-neural-patterns dept.

itwbennett writes "Stanford Law School has released a wiki called WhatApp?, where users can rate all manner of web apps, browsers, mobile platforms, mobile apps, and social network apps on their security, privacy, and openness. Currently, the wiki 'lists some 200+ apps, but most of them have not been reviewed yet. So they need a lot of help,' writes blogger Dan Tynan. 'To review an app you select it from the list, then fill out a 9-question form rating its privacy, security, and openness, ranging from 5 (very private, secure, and open) to 1 (a steaming pile of vulnerabilities and violations).'"

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Re:The most toxic DESKTOP App by quantumplacet · 2010-04-05 08:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

stupidly fake-formal sign-off, awesome name,

Kilgore Trout is the fake sci fi author in Kurt Vonnegut books.
Four words: Farmville and Mafia Wars by Zantac69 · 2010-04-05 08:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Those, IMHO, are the two most annoying wastes of time evar. EVAR! Should be rated toxic as such.

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Re:A better way by derfel+cadarn · 2010-04-05 12:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is one of the reasons we have virtual machines.