I saw a form asking for my Amazon password and noped out of there. I really want to try the service, but how do we solve for this trust issue?
Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for
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#92This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
I wonder why more sites don't allow you to create a second read only set of credentials for your account. This would solve a lot of trust issues when using a service like this or say for online banking services like Mint. If you want to stream Netflix/Amazon from an insecure computer would be another use case.
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#93> What is your Amazon.com password?
If this were Reddit, this is the point where I would attach a hilarious GIF of some animal running away with the text "NOPE" all over it.
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#94Asking me to enter my Amazon username and password makes this a complete non-starter. Might be the best idea in the world, but I'm not going to risk handing over my credentials for something as sensitive as my Amazon account to make a few extra bucks on some old stuff. There's just not enough risk-reward there for me (though with all due respect and in all honesty, it's unlikely there would ever be enough reason for me to hand over my credentials to some random startup)
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#95This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
Word. I am not giving my Amazon credentials to a site that just launched.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. You can put anything you want in text or graphics on the screen. You need to send people to a secure amazon.com login page and pass an OAuth token.
I agree. If my Amazon credentials are stolen, here's what I have at risk: - My credit card details (multiple) - Shipping / billing addresses - My private order history 5+ years - Access to all my AWS instances - Amazon Cloud Drive data - And I'm probably forgetting a few... With that being said, even services like Mint.com require handing over your bank's password to them even today. It's really not a good practice e…
Tried Shelfflip, minutes later received this email from Amazon:
"Your Amazon.com password has been changed"
This is an important message from Amazon.com.
As a precaution, we've reset your Amazon.com password because you may have been subject to a "phishing" scam.
Here's how phishing works:
A scam artist sends an e-mail, which is designed to look like it came from a reputable company such as a bank, financial institution, or retailer like Amazon.com, but is in fact a forgery. These e-mails direct you to a website that looks remarkably similar to the reputable company's website, where you are asked to provide account information such as your e-mail address and password. Since that web site is actually controlled by the phisher, they get the information you entered.
Go to amazon.com/phish to read more about ways to protect yourself from phishing.
To regain access to your Amazon customer account:
1. Go to Amazon.com and click the "Your Account" link at the top of our website.
2. Click the link that says "Forgot your password?"
3. Follow the instructions to set a new password for your account.
Please choose a new password and do not use the same password you used with us previously.
Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com.
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#97At first I thought this was a prank to see if I would easily give up my amazon credentials. Fool me once...actually not this time.
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#98A site that is not Amazon asked for my Amazon username and password. Uh, nope the fuck out of here. That account has access to my credit card information and home address.
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#99The simple login prompt for a different site is terrifying. Even if you can be trusted today, are you sure you won't hire an employee tomorrow who will sell all those passwords for fun and profit?
odd they would release it on hacker news with this flaw.
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#100This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
Would it help you to know that Shelflip is secured by Norton secured and ex-Google Engineers?
"Secured by Norton" has about the same ring for me as "nutrition by McDonald's".