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RE: Announcing AutoSteem - An automation tool for voting, curating and browsing Steemit!
hi people, not sure why this stuff creates such a reaction. Autosteem was built before steemconnect existed and I've never upgraded it yet to use that instead of putting your posting key in directly. As the docs say, the posting key is only used in YOUR browser, as NO info is ever sent anywhere in autosteem, it is only in your browser, so its completely safe to use your posting key since it is still completely private. I've had many users happy to see that Autosteem DOESN'T require steemconnect, because there you ARE sharing your posting key with another service. its up to you.
Thanks for commenting here.
I think it’s all about the current issues with phishing etc... people are now more careful with which website they give their keys to. At least I know and use steemconnect daily.
Steemconnect since v2 does not store your keys either, they set a proxy account in your Steem account to get the permission to post in your behalf. That’s why when you give the permission you can see in steemd.com that it has created a transaction with an authorisation data in it.
The doc can always say anything you like, it’s not a guaranty. Phishing websites are very convincing too.
But as I said earlier, I’m not accusing you, I checked the website and found it seems genuine. The “issue” with imputing key is only me. It’s just up to each one whether or not they feel comfortable imputing their keys in a tool they just discovered.