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Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by mike-cardwell »

savrajsingh wrote: post #12
lazyant wrote: post #8

I was logged into my gmail account and after visiting this site, without signing up for anything I get a welcome email, WTF?

That's not the expected behavior. We use Google Accounts for Sign In, but it should present you with a window that says "sign in to wattvision" and ask you for your password again, even if you are already logged in to Gmail. We'll confirm / try to repro on our end. Any other info you have is appreciated. UPDATE: We definitely want to fix this, we do not want to surprise or inadvertently sign up users. That's not our…

Why do you require a Google account to sign up?

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by yock »

I suspect that this sort of device could be removed by the power company should they discover it.The homeowner/tenant does not, in most cases, own the meter and some power companies could consider this a modification of the meter and have it removed. Heck, they might even bill you for the removal.

I'm speculating, of course, but it seems like a real risk to me.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by gesh »

To everyone complaining about the Google account login on wattvision.com: this looks like a major Google bug, not a WattVision problem. Even if they were evil, this should not be possible.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by savrajsingh »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #29
leftnode wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like a nice tool to have (if a bit expensive), but seriously, a bug like that is a real deal killer. Having my house appear after clicking a link freaked me out.

Having your house appear? Did they somehow pull your physical address info?

Ha. If only we were that good. ;) We try to figure out the city you're from using Geo IP (maxmind.com, for example) and then draw a Google Map. Down the line, we want to use the city you're from to compare use with other users from the same city/region. We're not interested in your exact street address.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by Confusion »

lazyant wrote: post #15
savrajsingh wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not the expected behavior. We use Google Accounts for Sign In, but it should present you with a window that says "sign in to wattvision" and ask you for your password again, even if you are already logged in to Gmail. We'll confirm / try to repro on our end. Any other info you have is appreciated. UPDATE: We definitely want to fix this, we do not want to surprise or inadvertently sign up users. That's not our…

My navigation was: - home page - /house - /info/sensors - /house/add I went to the last page because I was curious that you had to register _before_ buying. At this last page I saw my gmail username pre-populated in the form automatically which freaked me out (I didn't even know grabbing a visitor's google account name was possible) and I closed the page, I did not submit (voluntarily) any info. Then within a couple…

  (I didn't even know grabbing a visitor's google account
   name was possible)
I didn't either, but it seems you can simply use Google's API to allow a user to sign in, where the user name of the user that signs in (or is already signed in!), is reported to the user of the API via a callback. The request after you sign in has a 'continue' HTTP header that says something like:

  continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wattvision.com%2F_ah%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2F
  www.wattvision.com%2Fhouse&service=ah&dsh=2844188452075813479&timeStmp=&secTok=&GALX=
  DTEVMCX16p4&Email=&Passwd=

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by savrajsingh »

theli0nheart wrote: post #10
lazyant wrote: post #8

I was logged into my gmail account and after visiting this site, without signing up for anything I get a welcome email, WTF?

Same thing for me. Whatever you're doing, you need to stop it, or else you'll have worse things to worry about than complaining HN users ;).

Yes, we hear you, please see my comments above.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by savrajsingh »

mistermann wrote: post #14
lazyant wrote: post #8

I was logged into my gmail account and after visiting this site, without signing up for anything I get a welcome email, WTF?

How is that even possible? So if I'm signed into my gmail, a site can detect my email address? This seems like a huge privacy bug on googles behalf if this is actually happening.

We're investigating, its certainly not our intention. See my comments above.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Post by SriniK »

lazyant wrote: post #15
savrajsingh wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not the expected behavior. We use Google Accounts for Sign In, but it should present you with a window that says "sign in to wattvision" and ask you for your password again, even if you are already logged in to Gmail. We'll confirm / try to repro on our end. Any other info you have is appreciated. UPDATE: We definitely want to fix this, we do not want to surprise or inadvertently sign up users. That's not our…

My navigation was: - home page - /house - /info/sensors - /house/add I went to the last page because I was curious that you had to register _before_ buying. At this last page I saw my gmail username pre-populated in the form automatically which freaked me out (I didn't even know grabbing a visitor's google account name was possible) and I closed the page, I did not submit (voluntarily) any info. Then within a couple…

same here.. Are you using appengine? There is a recommended way to get the login implemented from appengine.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/overview....

I am not sure if you wanna do federated login on appengine.

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