Beware of applications or plugins of somewhat bad programmers.
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has written up a story of a G Mail password theft that will retrieve all stored password data of users of an G Mail application called G-Archiver.
Read Write Web picked that up and asked some interesting questions such as
How often have you given your usernames and passwords to various services, including webmail, to a new application you want to check out?
Read both articles AND the comments, to get more insights how to prevent security holes.
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The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks to serve billions of users worldwide.Mar9 08
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