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'''Quechup''' is a rapidly growing [[social networking]] website that enables its members to share photos, blogs and more with friends and family. |
'''Quechup''' is a rapidly growing [[social networking]] website that enables its members to share photos, blogs and more with friends and family. |
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The parent company of the Quechup operation is the [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]-based company iDate Corporation.<ref>[http://www.idatecorp.com |
The parent company of the Quechup operation is the [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]-based company iDate Corporation.<ref>[http://www.idatecorp.com |
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In a public statement released on 17th September 2007,<ref>[http://www.idatecorp.com/press-release.php?id=6 The Quechup Social Networking Platform: IDate Corporation Updates Quechup's Address Book Feature] Press release, Newbury - Berks - UK - 18 September 2007</ref> iDate claimed that: |
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{{blockquote|"We seem to have been accused of a number of things that simply aren't true, to my knowledge some aren't even possible. These have included sending viruses, forwarding people's passwords with invites, accessing someone's address book through a cookie when they chose not to check their address book. Clearly these wouldn't be beneficial to Quechup's service or the site's reputation," |
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To address these accusations Quechup categorically states the following: |
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#The site does not send viruses or worms of any sort. |
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#Quechup does NOT save users' login or password details for any web mail address books checked, they are accessed once, and then only if provided by the user. |
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#Quechup does not send passwords with invite mails. Quechup's passwords use a strong 'one-way' encryption, which allows us to check if an entered value matches, but not to decrypt, making it impossible to send a member's password with an invite. |
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#Quechup does not spoof emails. Quechup clearly identifies itself as the origin of the email in the SENDER email header. Further Quechup uses SPF records and fully complies with Microsoft's Sender ID Framework for email authentication.}} |
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The Quechup spamming has encouraged calls for open authentication through an [[OpenID]] system such as Yahoo's BBauth, which would allow a user to grant limited access to their data without providing passwords directly to a website.<ref>[http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/oauth_open_auth.html OAuth: Open Authentication Comes Closer to Reality] O'Reilly Radar Tuesday 09.25.07</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.idatecorp.com/ iDate corporation] |
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* [http://quechup.com Quechup.com] |
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* [http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/04/quechup-is-rotten-do.html ''Quechup is rotten: don't accept invites''] - An article on [[Boing Boing]]. |
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* [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/03/185547.php ''Quechup? No, Thanks''] - An article on [[Blogcritics]]. |
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* [http://lilsabub.livejournal.com/46814.html ''Quechup''] - An early blog complaint about Quechup's registration process from March 2006. |
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[[Category:Community websites]] |
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[[Category:Online social networking]] |
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[[Category:Virtual communities]] |
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[[Category:Web 2.0]] |
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[[Category:E-mail]] |
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[[Category:Spamming]] |
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Revision as of 10:14, 8 September 2008
Quechup is a rapidly growing social networking website that enables its members to share photos, blogs and more with friends and family.
The parent company of the Quechup operation is the Las Vegas-based company iDate Corporation.<ref>[http://www.idatecorp.com