if you’re not tech savvy to clean things up if something happens…it is likely worth the time investment to write your own things…

I’m not sure I follow.

You trust banks with your money, the government with your personal information, and even call-center employees with social security numbers, credit card numbers, and all varieties of information that could ruin your livelihood much worse than Twitter could with a rogue tweet. Look at Dreamhost.

How is this anything new or different? Trust is a requirement of life.

I have been aware of this possible security scenario for a while, however what can you do?

@Zinni: I agree that trust is really all you have, if it’s a paid service you are still on the short end of litigation should something of larger scale occur.

It does make me second guess using applications such as Twitter for uses other than their original purpose (eg the asides here). Had I manually entered them here or done a bit of theme hacking, I would only have myself to blame had something happened since everything was on my own server.

I think web applications are worthwhile, but the lesson I learned is that it in many cases (especially if you’re not tech savvy to clean things up if something happens) , it is likely worth the time investment to write your own things if they are simple enough. Perhaps I’ll find the time to install or write a plugin.

I have read this blog on numerous computers/ monitors and have had absolutely no problem with the contrast of the copy to the background… maybe your setup?

I have been aware of this possible security scenario for a while, however what can you do? I guess you have to trust that the developers at these companies are smart enough to minimize this as much as possible, and hope that nothing like this happens again (or ever). Unfortunately mistakes happen, so safeguard yourself as much as possible and never trust anything with a third party that you wouldn’t want other people to see.