Machrone Takes a Fresh Look at Plaxo: "Plaxo contains a hack that mines your Outlook profile password so that it can retrieve your contacts unhindered. Although Plaxo claims that it does nothing with your password once it retrieves your contacts, I don't like this, because it makes child's play out of accessing passwords; any other process, such as a destructive e-mail worm, can access your password, too. An article at the apparently defunct site SecurityStorm (now taken over by a popup spammer--don't go there) had technical details of Plaxo's operation, as well as correspondence between SecurityStorm's owner/author and Plaxo CEO Sean Parker. The correspondence demonstrated Parker's reaction to criticism and also showed that he he has an itchy trigger finger with his lawyers. Parker is a Napster cofounder and has had some of the most vicious law dogs unleashed against him; he's evidently learned a thing or two."