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RE: [HACKING WARNING] Be careful with all the Steemit apps that are appearing, some might get you hacked
Thanky you for warning i've been opening lots of thoose web apps, and lots of them are very useful, but danger exists. Do you maye have a list of safe ones?
Unfortunately no and it has to be a collective effort to validate the safe apps as if one individual says it's safe it doesn't mean it is if you know what I mean. But we should maybe start doing that. I'm not saying with certitude the apps people developed will hack them, I'm saying that there is that risk and people should 1. protect themselves and 2. know what to do when they get hacked.
Better safe than sorry. If you contain them, it should be OK.
None of the apps listed on http://steemtools.com uses any form of login so there is no involved in getting hacked...
It is the same as linking and visiting any other site. Of course never fill out your password or share your keys on any site... There are other ways for people to read the blockchain...
Be very attentional whenever you need to give a third party a 'write' access and share posting keys (or even higher keys)... I would recommend against it... There are other authoritive funcitonalitties in the blockchain in please for apps acting up as you by just giving them posting_authority for example which you can revoke.