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    <p>"Oh hello, if you only give me your username and password to google's services, and also your SSN, and CC number and PIN, and your birth date, name and address; I need it all but I won't misuse it, honest."</p> <p>That's what I hear when someone asks me for my name and password, for an e-mail service no less: what do most password-recovery systems use? Oh, right, your e-mail. The access to which you've just shared with an anonymous stranger. On the Internet. But hey, Facebook also asks for the right to ruffle through your e-mails, and they wouldn't be evil, so no problem, right?</p> <p>Also, your app now needs to store username+password, as <em>it will essentially become the user, as far as Google is concerned</em>. I trust Google not to leak my name and pass; OTOH I absolutely do not trust you not to leak those (either intentionally, or through an outside hack, or an inside disgruntled employee). <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132652/how-do-sites-like-meebo-store-usernames-and-passwords">I do remember a related question about a similar service <em>logging in as you</em></a>.</p> <p>@Pekka is right, if you're trying to use the user's access to Google, you should do this <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">using Google's OpenID endpoint</a>, as it's explicitly made for that situation, yet doesn't give you the control over the user's account. (I'm assuming you are <em>not</em> trying to phish the username and password)</p>
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