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Today I received the following message about my Netflix widget builder. I wanted to address it here if anyone else had similar concerns.
From: Interested Person If I give you the URL for my RSS feed, you have access to my entire queue forever.Even if I trust this to you, do you prevent others from being able to get access to all my RSS feeds (other than what shows up in the widget)?
From: Interested Person
If I give you the URL for my RSS feed, you have access to my entire queue forever.Even if I trust this to you, do you prevent others from being able to get access to all my RSS feeds (other than what shows up in the widget)?
And this was my reply:
Hello,To address your questions:1. The system must know the URL to your RSS in order to publish it.2. I apply a level of encryption to the script that removes your URL from public consumption. Try generating the script or viewing the script on my site to see what I mean.3. I personally have no interest in anyones queue outside of just wanting to share my movie tastes with the world, I thought it would be nice to allow the same for others by writing this script.4. If I was the unscrupulous type, having your RSS URL doesn't allow me to do anything except see what movies you have checked out, have returned, and what is in your queue. I suppose I could use that information to determine what types of movies you like. Seeing as Netflix only has a limited range of Adult-content movies, I don't know how this type of information could be used against you, even if I knew who a person was from just a movie queue. Outside of that, I cannot modify your queue, access your account, or otherwise affect your Netflix service. This is because Netflix creates that RSS ID separate from your login information.Thanks for the interest in the script!
Hello,To address your questions:1. The system must know the URL to your RSS in order to publish it.2. I apply a level of encryption to the script that removes your URL from public consumption. Try generating the script or viewing the script on my site to see what I mean.3. I personally have no interest in anyones queue outside of just wanting to share my movie tastes with the world, I thought it would be nice to allow the same for others by writing this script.4. If I was the unscrupulous type, having your RSS URL doesn't allow me to do anything except see what movies you have checked out, have returned, and what is in your queue. I suppose I could use that information to determine what types of movies you like. Seeing as Netflix only has a limited range of Adult-content movies, I don't know how this type of information could be used against you, even if I knew who a person was from just a movie queue.
Outside of that, I cannot modify your queue, access your account, or otherwise affect your Netflix service. This is because Netflix creates that RSS ID separate from your login information.Thanks for the interest in the script!
I plan on providing similar levels of security to all parameters that the system needs for all my upcoming scripts.
I worked along time on creating what I thought was a decent security model for JavaScript objects that attempts to obscure and protect script settings.
Not that any of the content contained within is ever going to be the type of data that has much risk associated with it, but rather to make it a single line of <script> and make it easier to paste into your pages.
Build your own Netflix widget.
