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Tagged sucks, but the article omits the key fact that it only sent out emails to your contact list if you gave it access to your email account. It wasn't as simple as "Any click resulted in the same thing, Cuomo said: Every person on a user's contact list received an email".

Blaming only the company doesn't help people learn the appropriate lesson of "don't share your password."

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While I agree with the idea that you should never share your password, you're blaming the victim. Having read a few accounts of their exploits now, this company is manipulating these people.

Some victims deserve blame. It's the rare con job that plays on our virtues and wisdom rather than our stupidity and baser desires.

So they deserve what they got for wanting to see pictures posted by their friends?

I don't think it rises to that level, but tedunangst and gojomo are both right in that imprudent user behavior was a necessary condition of this happening.

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