Re: [pygame] AppState-0.1 released

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Horst JENS wrote:

> Somehow i would feel uncomfortable if i had to type in my gmail account
> password just to upload an highscore - even if it's a open-source app.

What's the reasoning behind requiring a password for
this, anyway?

As far as I can see, the only threat it protects against
is someone else pretending to be you and giving you
one of their high scores. But that benefits you, not
them!

To guard against people faking their own high scores,
some kind of cryptographic arrangement is needed,
not passwords. Even then, it's hard to see how you
could prevent someone spoofing the protocol if the
game is open source.

--
Greg