With all the exciting and new things that are endless being developed to make our lives easier on Steemit some of us give out a lot of posting permissions to varies apps, sites, and other entity.

After recent events, I noticed some people have a lot of apps that have access to using posting permission. As we all should; but, usually forget to check in on our witness votes to make sure we are currently happy with who we are voting for. The same needs to be done for other elements of our accounts such as authorities.

Do you currently have a bunch of applications and sites that have posting key rights to your account that you no longer use? After asking some people this question I got another question back “how do find out?”

No one else is listed along side my public keys
The easiest method that I know is using a site like https://steemd.com/@enjar (change the last bit to your account name) where they have an Authorities section listing public keys and who has authorized access to such things like posting key on the left-hand side as you scroll down a little.

Keep in mind that that this is not foolproof by any means. You could have used an application or site that request your private keys and they did not become listed in this section. I’m not an expert by any means on this.

Recent Event

Recently I was informed that a 100% upvote went towards a post that I myself did not place and I did not want to support that post.

In the past, I did sign up for a site to try and automate my voting with hopes of using some of their other services it provided. With that came terms of use and while I don’t recall them ever using in the past my upvote for themselves I was not happy with their decision to do it now.

I never really used them much and I failed to maintain removing their posting permissions. As such, they decided to use my upvote to promote a post.

I was just going chalk this up to my mistake and life lesson learned and move on.

Except I found out not only did they announce the service first was going to shutdown but then they found a way to reopen and they use my upvote to promote that.

Since I don’t use the service anymore and I am left wondering why now use my upvote if they appear to be on the way out. I felt the safest thing to do was just revoke permissions. I can always re-enable those permissions down the road if and when trust is earned back and confidence is built on whatever future that site has.

I did so using this so I did not need to log into their site.

https://v2.steemconnect.com/revoke/@streemian

Please remember to maintain and manage account authorities . If you are not using something then why let them have your posting key or more? You never know what they might do with it even more so if you are not paying attention to updates or ownership changes.

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