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NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself

Posted by timothy on from the you're-loving-it dept.

Okian Warrior writes "Attendees to this year's New York Comic Con convention were allowed to pre-register their RFID-enabled badges online and connect their social media profiles to their badges — something, the NYCC registration site explained, that would make the 'NYCC experience 100x cooler! For realz.' Most attendees didn't expect "100x cooler" to translate into 'we'll post spam in your feed as soon as the RFID badge senses that you've entered the show,' but that seems to be what happened."

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  1. Ooops! Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ReedPop's apology was insincere and showed no remorsefulness. They've done it before and they'll do it again.

    Morale of the story: don't use your social media accounts for any type of authentication.

    1. Re:Ooops! Sorry by Jawnn · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well..., yeah. But that's asking an awful lot of a great many Twitter users.

    2. Re:Ooops! Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They didn't "ask" for permission. They inferred it from people providing their twitter account info. There wasn't even an "opt-out" option because people didn't know this was going to happen.

  2. Re:Prosecute them ... by Barny · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The people allowed the app, complete with special warning, to 'post tweets on their behalf'.

    There comes a time in your life where you take responsibility for your own actions. For the most part, we call this adulthood.

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  3. Stupid users to lazy to read by mark-t · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you connect your social media account to somethiing, it's reasonable to expect that every permission that they describe they are requesting they are actually going to use. If you're not comfortable with this, then don't connect the account to the service. Period.

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    1. Re:Stupid users to lazy to read by Rich0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If you're not comfortable with this, then don't connect the account to the service. Period.

      Why does it need to be this way? Why not give the user granular access to permissions? Platforms like Twitter/Android/etc give way too much control to apps and not enough to the user - the user shouldn't be given all-or-nothing choices like this.

  4. Re:Prosecute them ... by Oligonicella · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But they didn't steal an identity. Just requested allowance to post on a Twitter feed. Unless they did something other than what the article said, there's no identity theft going on. Giving someone access to use your broadcast mechanism is hardly equal to slavery.

  5. Re:"hawkguy is at nycc" vs. their lies. abused acc by NoMaster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In ten pages of google scholar results, I couldn't find a single one where someone had actually performed the famous "boiling frog experiment."

    Sedgwick, W.T., 1888, On Variations Of Reflex-Exciteablilty In The Frog, Induced By Changes Of Temperature. Studies From The Biological Laboratory, pp385-410.

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