Comments on: eKstreme Uncovers a Spy (Or Not)

By: chiro

chiro — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:34:51 +0000

Thanks for the scoop. I am glad this all got sorted out so quickly. Chris and 97th are great and I am just happy the tool, which is awesome, is now safe.

By: First Update to Social Media for FireFox Extension - We Are Not Spying On YOU

First Update to Social Media for FireFox Extension - We Are Not Spying On YOU — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:38:58 +0000

[...] that there were somethings being sent to a Data Base that looked concerning to say the least. Dazzling Donna also covered it and the story is on Sphinn right [...]

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:40:42 +0000

Very nice! A big thumbs up to you guys!

By: Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:25:28 +0000

We have fixed everything per Pierre’s advice, the new post explaining everything with the new “Clean and Safe” version is live.

http://www.97thfloor.com/blog/first-update-to-social-media-for-firefox-extension-we-are-not-spying-on-you/

By: Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:07:00 +0000

Thanks Donna,

We are already almost ready to send out the new version

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:48:42 +0000

Good to know, Chris. Pierre confirmed this with me as well. I’ll update the post so there’s no confusion about it.

By: Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:41:54 +0000

DazzlinDonna,

We had built the DB to track errors, and that is it. We saw Pierre’s post and I immediately contacted him to give him full access to our reports, and we will be making updates to the toolbar based off of his recommendation.

Because SU and Reddit do not have API’s we wanted to track errors as there were a lot of different problems we were having with them. We created this Toolbar to help the SEO community and there is now why I would want to to anything to put a users info in jeopardy. I have built 97th Floor from the ground up it is my life and there is now way I would let an FF extension ruin that.

I am not sleeping until this is taken care of. Pierre is being really cool in helping us out. We are going to announce what we find and what we did to fix it on the blog along with a new version that will be forced on everyones next FF load.

I will keep you posted.