Re: Resending Info about Grouply.com

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The reason I resent this, is Grouply is popping up again. One of our members is inviting members of this group to join Grouply. So Please Do Not put Natural Remedies on your Grouply list. To do so, will cause automatic dismissal from the Group. As I have stated in the past, if anyone's email address is changed to Grouply, it's an automatic dismissal. Grouply is notorious for causing some very bad trouble for and leads to porno and other mass emailings by stealing people's names in address books. Blessings, Joy

[ ] Resending Info about Grouply.com

Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner? | Welcome to NCS-Tech!Below is some information about Grouply. I refused to join. If anyone on this group does join, please do not have my email in your address book. Also, please do not put Natural Remedies on your info at Grouply. I do know of one person, in the group, that has joined. Also, for the past couple of weeks, I have been getting invites to join Grouply, from people, I do not know. Thank You. Blessings, JoyIDENTIFY THEFT AT GROUPLY.COMThere is a message going out to different advertisingand suggesting that you join a new group called GROUPLY. This groupclaims to help manage all your and you will get asummary, at the end of the day, telling you what is going on in allyour groups.IF YOU JOIN THIS GROUP, they use your ID and password topost "mass mailings" (can be junk, can be porn) and send them toanyone, and since it's YOUR ID they are using, others will think it iscoming from you.For instance, you could get an email CLAIMING that it came from"amystica3" group and it really is not from this group. I couldget an email, with this mass mailing, claiming it came from me, and itwould NOT have been from me.Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called "GROUPLY" IMMEDIATELYleave Grouply. Then go into your account at:mygroups and change your password. Somegroups have posted that this will help. Unsubbing from that groupwon't make a difference (but I think you will want to then possiblyrejoin) but you DO NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.By joining this group you have also exposed all your groups, groupmembers and group leaders to hacking of their emails and groupinformation.Because of this problem, some groups are removing all members witha email grouply.com. This is the only way to protect all the members.This is how Identity theft gets going. They now have your realemail, your emails, any emails listed in your group andcan mail as you in and out of the .I hope you understand what is happening and will take precautionsto protect your ID.I have also heard that grouply.com sells your information oncethey have it.Bizzy Searchin Mod a.. 8 months ago Source(s):This was taken from the Bizzy-Searchin-Freebies site.Welcome to NCS-Tech!A mix of K-8 educational technology resources, commentary, lesson ideas and more, for members of my school community & the world.Remember, "you can't spell TEACH without T-E-C-H!" © 2008 JarrettPlease note: views expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the views of the Northfield Board of Education. Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner?11 Feb 2008 @ 08:10 am · 46 Comments · Good morning all,After reading a cautionary email message in bit.listerv.edtech about a free new service called Grouply, I became intrigued and decided to check it outâ?¦It certainly LOOKS like a legit (and potentially very helpful) web 2.0 application! Theyâ?Tre TRUSTe certified, they got a positive review on TechCrunch, and they even have a FAQ that directly addresses some of the concerns that have been raised on the Internet about them. More importantly, the concept is very powerful; itâ?Ts basically a social networking mashup of your and Google Groups, offering to turn your mishmosh of multiple groups into a seamless, single-site experience. But wait, thereâ?Ts moreâ?¦Grouply allows you to get all of your group updates in a single email; consolidates all your group information on a single website; dramatically reduces the size (measured in line counts) of â?~digestâ?T emails, making them easier and faster to read; allows for cross-group calendaring; tagged searches; dynamic user profiles; and â?~whatâ?Ts popularâ?T and â?~whoâ?Ts activeâ?T functions to keep tabs on hot topics and prolific members of your network. Take the tour yourself. For people who subscribe to and manage a lot of and Google groups, Grouply could be a godsend.So whatâ?Ts the problem?In order for the service to work, you have to give them your ID and password. All of a sudden, visions of address-book spammers like Quechup come racing to mind, but weâ?Tre not talking here about a service using your address book to grow their business. No, itâ?Ts a potentially a LOT worse than that. To be honest, Iâ?Tm not sure the founders of Grouply have thought this through very well.Consider for a moment what information is controlled by your credentials â?¦ like all your Flickr photos; your Finance account information; your Security Key; all your profiles and identities; your OpenID key; your home address and telephone number; your Wallet information, even your Auctions account.Yep. Once youâ?Tve given out your password, they have access to all of that, regardless if they have NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER of using it. Grouply tries to allay fears about potential misuse of your credentials in this part of their FAQ but to anyone with a modicum of concern about their data privacy, this is a HUGE red flag. Doesnâ?Tt matter what they say. (Can you say â?~rouge employee?â?T) Fact is, youâ?Tve given out your password. What happens next?If all goes well, youâ?Tll enjoy the new service and its cool features. Youâ?Tll save time, build your network, and access information more easily. Youâ?Tll start leveraging Groups in ways you hadnâ?Tt before. Itâ?Ts all good!If all DOESNâ?TT go well - and your identity is somehow compromised, despite the ample protections they claim to have in place - what then?Thereâ?Ts more, though. As I understand it, joining Grouply effectively overrides the privacy and other settings youâ?Tve put in place on Groups youâ?Tre managing. Content becomes available, email addresses of subscribers become visible, everything becomes part of the network. For people using as a secure communication area for business or their organization, this could be a problem. I donâ?Tt belong to any groups that I wouldnâ?Tt write about here, but I have created MANY private groups for clients, colleagues and school associates for projects. I wouldnâ?Tt want these private groupsâ?T content brought into the open; thatâ?Ts why we made â?~em private!Seriously. I donâ?Tt design web applications and Iâ?Tm not a venture capitalist. Iâ?Tm certainly no data security expert. Heck, Iâ?Tm a classroom teacher. I spend my day surrounded by adorable schoolkids in my computer lab. But Iâ?Tm also a longtime user and someone who knows their way around the web. Thereâ?Ts no way in a million years Iâ?Td ever give my credentials to a website like Grouply. Just my choice. Your mileage may vary!Hereâ?Ts my question for the founders, who will probably find this blog and hopefully comment.Iâ?Tve seen various web 2.0 services request for â?oauthorizationâ? to use my stuff, like my Flickr photos. This is handled completely differently; I sign into my Account page and securely give applications permission to access my DATA but not my ACCOUNT DETAILS. Big difference. Is there a reason you could not have used a similar approach? *THAT* would make this service a slam-dunk.To the curious, though, there is a way to try this service. Just create a second identity, and use it only for messaging. Sign up for all your groups again using that identity. It would be kinda inconvenient, but, you could get a sense for the real value of the service without putting anything at risk. What do you think?Iâ?Tll close with this thought. Conceptually, this is an EXTREMELY cool idea. I love the social networking implications and I love saving time. But what about the risks? If you donâ?Tt have a lot of personal information tied into your account,by all means, go for it! If you do â?¦ I recommend you think twice.Hope this helps,-kj-My site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. We're powered by Wordpress and use the Cutline theme.This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 35440 Spams eaten and counting...--- End forwarded message ---------------------------------------

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yes, I got the same invite, I deleted it right away, I suggest every one on our site do the same...

From: Joyce Hudson <bjoyful@...>Subject: Re: [ ] Resending Info about Grouply.com Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 7:25 AM

The reason I resent this, is Grouply is popping up again. One of our members is inviting members of this group to join Grouply. So Please Do Not put Natural Remedies on your Grouply list. To do so, will cause automatic dismissal from the Group. As I have stated in the past, if anyone's email address is changed to Grouply, it's an automatic dismissal. Grouply is notorious for causing some very bad trouble for and leads to porno and other mass emailings by stealing people's names in address books. Blessings, Joy

[ ] Resending Info about Grouply.com

Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner? | Welcome to NCS-Tech!Below is some information about Grouply. I refused to join. If anyone on this group does join, please do not have my email in your address book. Also, please do not put Natural Remedies on your info at Grouply. I do know of one person, in the group, that has joined. Also, for the past couple of weeks, I have been getting invites to join Grouply, from people, I do not know. Thank You. Blessings, JoyIDENTIFY THEFT AT GROUPLY.COMThere is a message going out to different advertisingand suggesting that you join a new group called

GROUPLY. This groupclaims to help manage all your and you will get asummary, at the end of the day, telling you what is going on in allyour groups.IF YOU JOIN THIS GROUP, they use your ID and password topost "mass mailings" (can be junk, can be porn) and send them toanyone, and since it's YOUR ID they are using, others will think it iscoming from you.For instance, you could get an email CLAIMING that it came from"amystica3" group and it really is not from this group. I couldget an email, with this mass mailing, claiming it came from me, and itwould NOT have been from me.Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called "GROUPLY" IMMEDIATELYleave Grouply. Then go into your account at:http://groups. / mygroups and change your password. Somegroups have posted that this will help.

Unsubbing from that groupwon't make a difference (but I think you will want to then possiblyrejoin) but you DO NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.By joining this group you have also exposed all your groups, groupmembers and group leaders to hacking of their emails and groupinformation.Because of this problem, some groups are removing all members witha email grouply.com. This is the only way to protect all the members.This is how Identity theft gets going. They now have your realemail, your emails, any emails listed in your group andcan mail as you in and out of the .I hope you understand what is happening and will take precautionsto protect your ID.I have also heard that grouply.com sells your information oncethey have it.Bizzy Searchin Mod a.. 8 months ago Source(s):This was taken from the Bizzy-Searchin-

Freebies site.Welcome to NCS-Tech!A mix of K-8 educational technology resources, commentary, lesson ideas and more, for members of my school community & the world.Remember, "you can't spell TEACH without T-E-C-H!" © 2008 JarrettPlease note: views expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the views of the Northfield Board of Education. Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner?11 Feb 2008 @ 08:10 am · 46 Comments · Good morning all,After reading a cautionary email message in bit.listerv. edtech about a free new service called Grouply, I became intrigued and decided to check it outâ?¦It certainly LOOKS like a legit (and potentially very helpful) web 2.0 application! Theyâ?Tre TRUSTe certified, they got a positive review on TechCrunch, and they even have a FAQ that directly addresses some of the concerns that have been raised on the Internet about

them. More importantly, the concept is very powerful; itâ?Ts basically a social networking mashup of your and Google Groups, offering to turn your mishmosh of multiple groups into a seamless, single-site experience. But wait, thereâ?Ts moreâ?¦Grouply allows you to get all of your group updates in a single email; consolidates all your group information on a single website; dramatically reduces the size (measured in line counts) of â?~digestâ?T emails, making them easier and faster to read; allows for cross-group calendaring; tagged searches; dynamic user profiles; and â?~whatâ?Ts popularâ?T and â?~whoâ?Ts activeâ?T functions to keep tabs on hot topics and prolific members of your network. Take the tour yourself. For people who subscribe to and manage a lot of and Google groups, Grouply could be a godsend.So whatâ?Ts the problem?In order for the service to work, you have to give them your ID and

password. All of a sudden, visions of address-book spammers like Quechup come racing to mind, but weâ?Tre not talking here about a service using your address book to grow their business. No, itâ?Ts a potentially a LOT worse than that. To be honest, Iâ?Tm not sure the founders of Grouply have thought this through very well.Consider for a moment what information is controlled by your credentials â?¦ like all your Flickr photos; your Finance account information; your Security Key; all your profiles and identities; your OpenID key; your home address and telephone number; your Wallet information, even your Auctions account.Yep. Once youâ?Tve given out your password, they have access to all of that, regardless if they have NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER of using it. Grouply tries to allay fears about potential misuse of your credentials in this part of their FAQ but to anyone with a modicum of concern

about their data privacy, this is a HUGE red flag. Doesnâ?Tt matter what they say. (Can you say â?~rouge employee?â?T) Fact is, youâ?Tve given out your password. What happens next?If all goes well, youâ?Tll enjoy the new service and its cool features. Youâ?Tll save time, build your network, and access information more easily. Youâ?Tll start leveraging Groups in ways you hadnâ?Tt before. Itâ?Ts all good!If all DOESNâ?TT go well - and your identity is somehow compromised, despite the ample protections they claim to have in place - what then?Thereâ?Ts more, though. As I understand it, joining Grouply effectively overrides the privacy and other settings youâ?Tve put in place on Groups youâ?Tre managing. Content becomes available, email addresses of subscribers become visible, everything becomes part of the network. For people using as a secure communication area for business or their

organization, this could be a problem. I donâ?Tt belong to any groups that I wouldnâ?Tt write about here, but I have created MANY private groups for clients, colleagues and school associates for projects. I wouldnâ?Tt want these private groupsâ?T content brought into the open; thatâ?Ts why we made â?~em private!Seriously. I donâ?Tt design web applications and Iâ?Tm not a venture capitalist. Iâ?Tm certainly no data security expert. Heck, Iâ?Tm a classroom teacher. I spend my day surrounded by adorable schoolkids in my computer lab. But Iâ?Tm also a longtime user and someone who knows their way around the web. Thereâ?Ts no way in a million years Iâ?Td ever give my credentials to a website like Grouply. Just my choice. Your mileage may vary!Hereâ?Ts my question for the founders, who will probably find this blog and hopefully comment.Iâ?Tve seen various web 2.0 services request for â?oauthorizationâ

?� to use my stuff, like my Flickr photos. This is handled completely differently; I sign into my Account page and securely give applications permission to access my DATA but not my ACCOUNT DETAILS. Big difference. Is there a reason you could not have used a similar approach? *THAT* would make this service a slam-dunk.To the curious, though, there is a way to try this service. Just create a second identity, and use it only for messaging. Sign up for all your groups again using that identity. It would be kinda inconvenient, but, you could get a sense for the real value of the service without putting anything at risk. What do you think?Iâ?Tll close with this thought. Conceptually, this is an EXTREMELY cool idea. I love the social networking implications and I love saving time. But what about the risks? If you donâ?Tt have a lot of personal information tied into your account,by all means, go for it! If you do

â?¦ I recommend you think twice.Hope this helps,-kj-My site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 license. We're powered by Wordpress and use the Cutline theme.This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 35440 Spams eaten and counting...--- End forwarded message --------------- --------- --------- ------

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Well, the email that was used as an invite, had been stolen by Grouply, to invite those that got invited. Because the owner of the email, did not know what was going on. It seems to me, that Grouply should be banned from the internet.

[ ] Resending Info about Grouply.com

Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner? | Welcome to NCS-Tech!Below is some information about Grouply. I refused to join. If anyone on this group does join, please do not have my email in your address book. Also, please do not put Natural Remedies on your info at Grouply. I do know of one person, in the group, that has joined. Also, for the past couple of weeks, I have been getting invites to join Grouply, from people, I do not know. Thank You. Blessings, JoyIDENTIFY THEFT AT GROUPLY.COMThere is a message going out to different advertisingand suggesting that you join a new group called GROUPLY. This groupclaims to help manage all your and you will get asummary, at the end of the day, telling you what is going on in allyour groups.IF YOU JOIN THIS GROUP, they use your ID and password topost "mass mailings" (can be junk, can be porn) and send them toanyone, and since it's YOUR ID they are using, others will think it iscoming from you.For instance, you could get an email CLAIMING that it came from"amystica3" group and it really is not from this group. I couldget an email, with this mass mailing, claiming it came from me, and itwould NOT have been from me.Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called "GROUPLY" IMMEDIATELYleave Grouply. Then go into your account at:http://groups. / mygroups and change your password. Somegroups have posted that this will help. Unsubbing from that groupwon't make a difference (but I think you will want to then possiblyrejoin) but you DO NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.By joining this group you have also exposed all your groups, groupmembers and group leaders to hacking of their emails and groupinformation.Because of this problem, some groups are removing all members witha email grouply.com. This is the only way to protect all the members.This is how Identity theft gets going. They now have your realemail, your emails, any emails listed in your group andcan mail as you in and out of the .I hope you understand what is happening and will take precautionsto protect your ID.I have also heard that grouply.com sells your information oncethey have it.Bizzy Searchin Mod a.. 8 months ago Source(s):This was taken from the Bizzy-Searchin- Freebies site.Welcome to NCS-Tech!A mix of K-8 educational technology resources, commentary, lesson ideas and more, for members of my school community & the world.Remember, "you can't spell TEACH without T-E-C-H!" © 2008 JarrettPlease note: views expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the views of the Northfield Board of Education. Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner?11 Feb 2008 @ 08:10 am · 46 Comments · Good morning all,After reading a cautionary email message in bit.listerv. edtech about a free new service called Grouply, I became intrigued and decided to check it outâ?¦It certainly LOOKS like a legit (and potentially very helpful) web 2.0 application! Theyâ?Tre TRUSTe certified, they got a positive review on TechCrunch, and they even have a FAQ that directly addresses some of the concerns that have been raised on the Internet about them. More importantly, the concept is very powerful; itâ?Ts basically a social networking mashup of your and Google Groups, offering to turn your mishmosh of multiple groups into a seamless, single-site experience. But wait, thereâ?Ts moreâ?¦Grouply allows you to get all of your group updates in a single email; consolidates all your group information on a single website; dramatically reduces the size (measured in line counts) of â?~digestâ?T emails, making them easier and faster to read; allows for cross-group calendaring; tagged searches; dynamic user profiles; and â?~whatâ?Ts popularâ?T and â?~whoâ?Ts activeâ?T functions to keep tabs on hot topics and prolific members of your network. Take the tour yourself. For people who subscribe to and manage a lot of and Google groups, Grouply could be a godsend.So whatâ?Ts the problem?In order for the service to work, you have to give them your ID and password. All of a sudden, visions of address-book spammers like Quechup come racing to mind, but weâ?Tre not talking here about a service using your address book to grow their business. No, itâ?Ts a potentially a LOT worse than that. To be honest, Iâ?Tm not sure the founders of Grouply have thought this through very well.Consider for a moment what information is controlled by your credentials â?¦ like all your Flickr photos; your Finance account information; your Security Key; all your profiles and identities; your OpenID key; your home address and telephone number; your Wallet information, even your Auctions account.Yep. Once youâ?Tve given out your password, they have access to all of that, regardless if they have NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER of using it. Grouply tries to allay fears about potential misuse of your credentials in this part of their FAQ but to anyone with a modicum of concern about their data privacy, this is a HUGE red flag. Doesnâ?Tt matter what they say. (Can you say â?~rouge employee?â?T) Fact is, youâ?Tve given out your password. What happens next?If all goes well, youâ?Tll enjoy the new service and its cool features. Youâ?Tll save time, build your network, and access information more easily. Youâ?Tll start leveraging Groups in ways you hadnâ?Tt before. Itâ?Ts all good!If all DOESNâ?TT go well - and your identity is somehow compromised, despite the ample protections they claim to have in place - what then?Thereâ?Ts more, though. As I understand it, joining Grouply effectively overrides the privacy and other settings youâ?Tve put in place on Groups youâ?Tre managing. Content becomes available, email addresses of subscribers become visible, everything becomes part of the network. For people using as a secure communication area for business or their organization, this could be a problem. I donâ?Tt belong to any groups that I wouldnâ?Tt write about here, but I have created MANY private groups for clients, colleagues and school associates for projects. I wouldnâ?Tt want these private groupsâ?T content brought into the open; thatâ?Ts why we made â?~em private!Seriously. I donâ?Tt design web applications and Iâ?Tm not a venture capitalist. Iâ?Tm certainly no data security expert. Heck, Iâ?Tm a classroom teacher. I spend my day surrounded by adorable schoolkids in my computer lab. But Iâ?Tm also a longtime user and someone who knows their way around the web. Thereâ?Ts no way in a million years Iâ?Td ever give my credentials to a website like Grouply. Just my choice. Your mileage may vary!Hereâ?Ts my question for the founders, who will probably find this blog and hopefully comment.Iâ?Tve seen various web 2.0 services request for â?oauthorizationâ ?� to use my stuff, like my Flickr photos. This is handled completely differently; I sign into my Account page and securely give applications permission to access my DATA but not my ACCOUNT DETAILS. Big difference. Is there a reason you could not have used a similar approach? *THAT* would make this service a slam-dunk.To the curious, though, there is a way to try this service. Just create a second identity, and use it only for messaging. Sign up for all your groups again using that identity. It would be kinda inconvenient, but, you could get a sense for the real value of the service without putting anything at risk. What do you think?Iâ?Tll close with this thought. Conceptually, this is an EXTREMELY cool idea. I love the social networking implications and I love saving time. But what about the risks? If you donâ?Tt have a lot of personal information tied into your account,by all means, go for it! If you do â?¦ I recommend you think twice.Hope this helps,-kj-My site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 license. We're powered by Wordpress and use the Cutline theme.This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 35440 Spams eaten and counting...--- End forwarded message --------------- --------- --------- ------

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I know Joyce.

The invites have been going on for months and I hate it

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Joyce Hudson <bjoyful@...> wrote:

Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner? | Welcome to NCS-Tech!Below is some information about Grouply. I refused to join. If anyone on this group does join, please do not have my email in your address book. Also, please do not put Natural Remedies on your info at Grouply. I do know of one person, in the group, that has joined. Also, for the past couple of weeks, I have been getting invites to join Grouply, from people, I do not know. Thank You. Blessings, Joy

IDENTIFY THEFT AT GROUPLY.COMThere is a message going out to different advertisingand suggesting that you join a new group called GROUPLY. This group

claims to help manage all your and you will get asummary, at the end of the day, telling you what is going on in allyour groups.IF YOU JOIN THIS GROUP, they use your ID and password to

post " mass mailings " (can be junk, can be porn) and send them toanyone, and since it's YOUR ID they are using, others will think it iscoming from you.For instance, you could get an email CLAIMING that it came from

" amystica3 " group and it really is not from this group. I couldget an email, with this mass mailing, claiming it came from me, and itwould NOT have been from me.Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called " GROUPLY " IMMEDIATELY

leave Grouply. Then go into your account at:mygroups and change your password. Somegroups have posted that this will help. Unsubbing from that group

won't make a difference (but I think you will want to then possiblyrejoin) but you DO NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.By joining this group you have also exposed all your groups, groupmembers and group leaders to hacking of their emails and group

information.Because of this problem, some groups are removing all members witha email grouply.com. This is the only way to protect all the members.This is how Identity theft gets going. They now have your real

email, your emails, any emails listed in your group andcan mail as you in and out of the .I hope you understand what is happening and will take precautionsto protect your ID.

I have also heard that grouply.com sells your information oncethey have it.Bizzy Searchin Moda.. 8 months ago Source(s):This was taken from the Bizzy-Searchin-Freebies site.

Welcome to NCS-Tech!A mix of K-8 educational technology resources, commentary, lesson ideas and more, for members of my school community & the world.Remember, " you can't spell TEACH without T-E-C-H! " © 2008 Jarrett

Please note: views expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the views of the Northfield Board of Education.Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner?11 Feb 2008 @ 08:10 am · 46 Comments ·

Good morning all,After reading a cautionary email message in bit.listerv.edtech about a free new service called Grouply, I became intrigued and decided to check it out…It certainly LOOKS like a legit (and potentially very helpful) web 2.0 application! They’re TRUSTe certified, they got a positive review on TechCrunch, and they even have a FAQ that directly addresses some of the concerns that have been raised on the Internet about them. More importantly, the concept is very powerful; it’s basically a social networking mashup of your and Google Groups, offering to turn your mishmosh of multiple groups into a seamless, single-site experience. But wait, there’s more…

Grouply allows you to get all of your group updates in a single email; consolidates all your group information on a single website; dramatically reduces the size (measured in line counts) of ‘digest’ emails, making them easier and faster to read; allows for cross-group calendaring; tagged searches; dynamic user profiles; and ‘what’s popular’ and ‘who’s active’ functions to keep tabs on hot topics and prolific members of your network. Take the tour yourself. For people who subscribe to and manage a lot of and Google groups, Grouply could be a godsend.

So what’s the problem?In order for the service to work, you have to give them your ID and password. All of a sudden, visions of address-book spammers like Quechup come racing to mind, but we’re not talking here about a service using your address book to grow their business. No, it’s a potentially a LOT worse than that. To be honest, I’m not sure the founders of Grouply have thought this through very well.

Consider for a moment what information is controlled by your credentials … like all your Flickr photos; your Finance account information; your Security Key; all your profiles and identities; your OpenID key; your home address and telephone number; your Wallet information, even your Auctions account.

Yep. Once you’ve given out your password, they have access to all of that, regardless if they have NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER of using it. Grouply tries to allay fears about potential misuse of your credentials in this part of their FAQ but to anyone with a modicum of concern about their data privacy, this is a HUGE red flag. Doesn’t matter what they say. (Can you say ‘rouge employee?’) Fact is, you’ve given out your password. What happens next?

If all goes well, you’ll enjoy the new service and its cool features. You’ll save time, build your network, and access information more easily. You’ll start leveraging Groups in ways you hadn’t before. It’s all good!

If all DOESN’T go well - and your identity is somehow compromised, despite the ample protections they claim to have in place - what then?There’s more, though. As I understand it, joining Grouply effectively overrides the privacy and other settings you’ve put in place on Groups you’re managing. Content becomes available, email addresses of subscribers become visible, everything becomes part of the network. For people using as a secure communication area for business or their organization, this could be a problem. I don’t belong to any groups that I wouldn’t write about here, but I have created MANY private groups for clients, colleagues and school associates for projects. I wouldn’t want these private groups’ content brought into the open; that’s why we made ‘em private!

Seriously. I don’t design web applications and I’m not a venture capitalist. I’m certainly no data security expert. Heck, I’m a classroom teacher. I spend my day surrounded by adorable schoolkids in my computer lab. But I’m also a longtime user and someone who knows their way around the web. There’s no way in a million years I’d ever give my credentials to a website like Grouply. Just my choice. Your mileage may vary!

Here’s my question for the founders, who will probably find this blog and hopefully comment.I’ve seen various web 2.0 services request for “authorization†to use my stuff, like my Flickr photos. This is handled completely differently; I sign into my Account page and securely give applications permission to access my DATA but not my ACCOUNT DETAILS. Big difference. Is there a reason you could not have used a similar approach? *THAT* would make this service a slam-dunk.

To the curious, though, there is a way to try this service. Just create a second identity, and use it only for messaging. Sign up for all your groups again using that identity. It would be kinda inconvenient, but, you could get a sense for the real value of the service without putting anything at risk. What do you think?

I’ll close with this thought. Conceptually, this is an EXTREMELY cool idea. I love the social networking implications and I love saving time. But what about the risks? If you don’t have a lot of personal information tied into your account,by all means, go for it! If you do … I recommend you think twice.

Hope this helps,-kj-My site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. We're powered by Wordpress and use the Cutline theme.This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 35440 Spams eaten and counting...

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I agree

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Joyce Hudson <bjoyful@...> wrote:

 Well, the email that was used as an invite, had been stolen by Grouply, to invite those that got invited.  Because the owner of the email, did not know what was going on.  It seems to me, that Grouply should be banned from the internet.

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Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner? | Welcome to NCS-Tech!Below is some information about Grouply.  I refused to join.  If anyone on this group does join, please do not have my email in your address book.  Also, please do not put Natural Remedies on your info at Grouply.   I do know of one person, in the group, that has joined.  Also, for the past couple of weeks, I have been getting invites to join Grouply, from people, I do not know.  Thank You.  Blessings, Joy

IDENTIFY THEFT AT GROUPLY.COMThere is a message going out to different advertisingand suggesting that you join a new group called GROUPLY. This group

claims to help manage all your and you will get asummary, at the end of the day, telling you what is going on in allyour groups.IF YOU JOIN THIS GROUP, they use your ID and password to

post " mass mailings " (can be junk, can be porn) and send them toanyone, and since it's YOUR ID they are using, others will think it iscoming from you.For instance, you could get an email CLAIMING that it came from

" amystica3 " group and it really is not from this group. I couldget an email, with this mass mailing, claiming it came from me, and itwould NOT have been from me.Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called " GROUPLY " IMMEDIATELY

leave Grouply. Then go into your account at:http://groups. / mygroups and change your password. Somegroups have posted that this will help. Unsubbing from that group

won't make a difference (but I think you will want to then possiblyrejoin) but you DO NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.By joining this group you have also exposed all your groups, groupmembers and group leaders to hacking of their emails and group

information.Because of this problem, some groups are removing all members witha email grouply.com. This is the only way to protect all the members.This is how Identity theft gets going. They now have your real

email, your emails, any emails listed in your group andcan mail as you in and out of the .I hope you understand what is happening and will take precautionsto protect your ID.

I have also heard that grouply.com sells your information oncethey have it.Bizzy Searchin Mod  a.. 8 months ago Source(s):This was taken from the Bizzy-Searchin- Freebies site.

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Please note: views expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the views of the Northfield Board of Education. Grouply.com: cool free service or evil data miner?11 Feb 2008 @ 08:10 am · 46 Comments ·

Good morning all,After reading a cautionary email message in bit.listerv. edtech about a free new service called Grouply, I became intrigued and decided to check it outâ?¦It certainly LOOKS like a legit (and potentially very helpful) web 2.0 application! Theyâ?Tre TRUSTe certified, they got a positive review on TechCrunch, and they even have a FAQ that directly addresses some of the concerns that have been raised on the Internet about them. More importantly, the concept is very powerful; itâ?Ts basically a social networking mashup of your and Google Groups, offering to turn your mishmosh of multiple groups into a seamless, single-site experience. But wait, thereâ?Ts moreâ?¦

Grouply allows you to get all of your group updates in a single email; consolidates all your group information on a single website; dramatically reduces the size (measured in line counts) of â?~digestâ?T emails, making them easier and faster to read; allows for cross-group calendaring; tagged searches; dynamic user profiles; and â?~whatâ?Ts popularâ?T and â?~whoâ?Ts activeâ?T functions to keep tabs on hot topics and prolific members of your network. Take the tour yourself. For people who subscribe to and manage a lot of and Google groups, Grouply could be a godsend.

So whatâ?Ts the problem?In order for the service to work, you have to give them your ID and password. All of a sudden, visions of address-book spammers like Quechup come racing to mind, but weâ?Tre not talking here about a service using your address book to grow their business. No, itâ?Ts a potentially a LOT worse than that. To be honest, Iâ?Tm not sure the founders of Grouply have thought this through very well.

Consider for a moment what information is controlled by your credentials â?¦ like all your Flickr photos; your Finance account information; your Security Key; all your profiles and identities; your OpenID key; your home address and telephone number; your Wallet information, even your Auctions account.

Yep. Once youâ?Tve given out your password, they have access to all of that, regardless if they have NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER of using it. Grouply tries to allay fears about potential misuse of your credentials in this part of their FAQ but to anyone with a modicum of concern about their data privacy, this is a HUGE red flag. Doesnâ?Tt matter what they say. (Can you say â?~rouge employee?â?T) Fact is, youâ?Tve given out your password. What happens next?

If all goes well, youâ?Tll enjoy the new service and its cool features. Youâ?Tll save time, build your network, and access information more easily. Youâ?Tll start leveraging Groups in ways you hadnâ?Tt before. Itâ?Ts all good!

If all DOESNâ?TT go well - and your identity is somehow compromised, despite the ample protections they claim to have in place - what then?Thereâ?Ts more, though. As I understand it, joining Grouply effectively overrides the privacy and other settings youâ?Tve put in place on Groups youâ?Tre managing. Content becomes available, email addresses of subscribers become visible, everything becomes part of the network. For people using as a secure communication area for business or their organization, this could be a problem. I donâ?Tt belong to any groups that I wouldnâ?Tt write about here, but I have created MANY private groups for clients, colleagues and school associates for projects. I wouldnâ?Tt want these private groupsâ?T content brought into the open; thatâ?Ts why we made â?~em private!

Seriously. I donâ?Tt design web applications and Iâ?Tm not a venture capitalist. Iâ?Tm certainly no data security expert. Heck, Iâ?Tm a classroom teacher. I spend my day surrounded by adorable schoolkids in my computer lab. But Iâ?Tm also a longtime user and someone who knows their way around the web. Thereâ?Ts no way in a million years Iâ?Td ever give my credentials to a website like Grouply. Just my choice. Your mileage may vary!

Hereâ?Ts my question for the founders, who will probably find this blog and hopefully comment.Iâ?Tve seen various web 2.0 services request for â?oauthorizationâ ?� to use my stuff, like my Flickr photos. This is handled completely differently; I sign into my Account page and securely give applications permission to access my DATA but not my ACCOUNT DETAILS. Big difference. Is there a reason you could not have used a similar approach? *THAT* would make this service a slam-dunk.

To the curious, though, there is a way to try this service. Just create a second identity, and use it only for messaging. Sign up for all your groups again using that identity. It would be kinda inconvenient, but, you could get a sense for the real value of the service without putting anything at risk. What do you think?

Iâ?Tll close with this thought. Conceptually, this is an EXTREMELY cool idea. I love the social networking implications and I love saving time. But what about the risks? If you donâ?Tt have a lot of personal information tied into your account,by all means, go for it! If you do â?¦ I recommend you think twice.

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