Comments on: FreeMyFeed: Read Authenticated RSS Feeds Wherever You Want http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/ Directory 2.0 : Free Web Applications and Mobile Tools Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:25:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Koselara http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-18228 Koselara Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:12:42 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-18228 My guess is that it was created primarily for people that are active at multiple password-protected blogs/journals/discussion sites, or have a webmail account that they'd like to be able to monitor without installing another extension/program or visiting the sites manually over and over. A lot of people use RSS/Atom on a computer that they can't add software to, or read their feeds from more than one location, so simply installing a more powerful desktop client isn't an option. As far as security is concerned, the only password-RSS-enabled site I can think of that might have one's own personal info would be Gmail -- and I don't think their RSS posts included enough of the email to convey anything damaging. I'd be far more concerned about feeds that have "trusted friends/family only" posts from blog/journal sites, considering some of the things people confide could do serious damage if it became known to others. My guess is that it was created primarily for people that are active at multiple password-protected blogs/journals/discussion sites, or have a webmail account that they’d like to be able to monitor without installing another extension/program or visiting the sites manually over and over. A lot of people use RSS/Atom on a computer that they can’t add software to, or read their feeds from more than one location, so simply installing a more powerful desktop client isn’t an option.

As far as security is concerned, the only password-RSS-enabled site I can think of that might have one’s own personal info would be Gmail — and I don’t think their RSS posts included enough of the email to convey anything damaging. I’d be far more concerned about feeds that have “trusted friends/family only” posts from blog/journal sites, considering some of the things people confide could do serious damage if it became known to others.

]]> By: Aibek http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-17987 Aibek Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:22:59 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-17987 You can't burn an authenticated feed with Feedburner. You can’t burn an authenticated feed with Feedburner.

]]> By: bob http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-17613 bob Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:50:09 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-17613 I don't really get the point of this, first of all you are opening up a password protected feed, to anybody who guess the right URL of the feed (yes, okay, it will most likely be a 49 character long obfusticated URL, but my point still stands, you are opening it up.) Second, you are giving them the login details, and I don't know about anybody else, but a site which asks you for login details for a site which is not the site you are on, sounds extremely like phishing to me, and I would rather just login to Gmail, than have a feed of my messages, especially if you can just login to 'Google Services' (or whatever they call it now) and the Atom feed just checks your cookies and authenticates you that way! Finally, if you really, really need password-protected feeds, simply get a better feed reader. I don’t really get the point of this, first of all you are opening up a password protected feed, to anybody who guess the right URL of the feed (yes, okay, it will most likely be a 49 character long obfusticated URL, but my point still stands, you are opening it up.) Second, you are giving them the login details, and I don’t know about anybody else, but a site which asks you for login details for a site which is not the site you are on, sounds extremely like phishing to me, and I would rather just login to Gmail, than have a feed of my messages, especially if you can just login to ‘Google Services’ (or whatever they call it now) and the Atom feed just checks your cookies and authenticates you that way! Finally, if you really, really need password-protected feeds, simply get a better feed reader.

]]> By: Alfred http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-17601 Alfred Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:15:26 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freemyfeed-read-authenticated-rss-feeds/#comment-17601 What if you first burn your feed with feedburner. Feedburner is acquired by google so if you don't trust them you should not use gmail because I here a lot of people who don't trust them. What if you first burn your feed with feedburner. Feedburner is acquired by google so if you don’t trust them you should not use gmail because I here a lot of people who don’t trust them.

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