Thanks to Ray Springer, Eloqua Technical Writer, for sending this to me.

As Ray pointed out, this involves privacy issues and unintended consequences of poor UI design.

http://loopt.typepad.com/loopt/2008/07/iphone-invite-c.html
http://tastyblogsnack.com/2008/07/14/the-loopt-debacle/

Man, I get so tired of people doing dumb things like this. A lot of us watched a bunch of social site do the same thing and they just never learn. I wouldn’t be surprised to see my 3G iPhone with some sort of security protection to stop this sort of mining thing in the future. The same sort of security protection you currently see in your Outlook clients when a third party app tries to access your contacts without your knowledge or without your EXPLICIT permission.

-Dennis
Eloqua