Ya Like To Think The Best Of People

I have used lots of freeware and shareware over the years, scripts that are useful, hoping the author had the best intentions while distributing. Hoping so due to the fact I have the best intentions when giving away free code, simply figuring it helped me, maybe it will help somebody else.

Then a friend alerts me to Dustin Brooks' story of G-Archiver, a tool that archives Gmail contents to a local folder. The story is stunning, and that of a man scamming people of their login credintials for their Gmail accounts. The writer of the application hardcoded in his Gmail info into the application to have it email login info to his private account each time somebody used the application. Not everybody could find this, as it was all compiled code that Mr. Brooks used a decompiler to view.

Read the full blog post at Jeff Atwood's Codding Horror blog.