Comments on: Open Source Contact Importer/Inviter

By: Dylan Rosario

Dylan Rosario — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:57:31 +0000

This is a great script. Security… sure its an issue, but that means that what ever site has this integrated is stealing passwords. No different than any of a dozen Web 2.0 sites that imports contacts. There is area fro abuse on any system. As far as configuration, It works fine for me. I (of course) am a software engineer, and can read others peoples code. So it only takes a litle bit of reading of the example and you pretty much have full control over the code.

5 stars. much needed library.

By: James

James — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:29:19 +0000

Yes, I have tested OpenInviter. It is very difficult to integrate and the customization is horrible.
You can only customize some basic email parameters.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:02:34 +0000

Hi all,

This discussion begin last year. Has anyone used OpenInviter in your website? Any comments about new versions?

By: Jaquille

Jaquille — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:47:12 +0000

The script is fine but it is not complete and you cannot use it without having programming skills.
Here you can review another script , tell a friend with contact importer.

It has a lot of features including admin panel, reward systems, reminders, reports, etc :
http://www.super-tell-a-friend.com

Test online tell a friend contact importer

By: codex

codex — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:08:42 +0000

OpenInviter is cool. That debug feature is disabled and you can even delete it entirely if you wish. But the script is really cool.

By: dalin

dalin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:18:13 +0000

Like OpenInviter said, remote debugging is disabbled by default. So no they are probably not “stealing” paswords. But the potential for a privacy breach is there.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:20:20 +0000

Are you sure they are stealing others contact information and passwords?

By: sanjana

sanjana — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:08:33 +0000

No matter what you say openinviter, but it’s proven fact, you are stealing others contact information and password even , you guys are unethical and will be banned soon.

By: OpenInviter

OpenInviter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:03:51 +0000

Thank you for your opinion Dalin.
We are hurrying into adding more services lately that we forgot that we are not the only ones using OI (yup, we are using it, that’s why we are developing it)

IT IS open source. A GPL agreement will be added to the package.
The reason of registering is because we want to offer auto updates later on (based on that little api string)
The debug feature (which comes disabled) has been required by our members.

By: dalin

dalin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:28:55 +0000

I agree, the whole concept is a horrible idea. It encourages people to misunderstand personal security. But the problem is only going to get worse until the big email providers implement real tools to do this sort of thing. The most promising technology in this area is probably OAuth which is a sister to OpenID. But currently none of the big providers are making any real efforts in this regard. It may take a big security breach to get change to happen (i.e. some site uses one of these email username/pass forms to harvest millions of emails for nefarious uses).