Open Connect - A UX proposal for the OpenStack
Joseph A Holsten
joseph at josephholsten.com
Sun Dec 21 12:40:40 UTC 2008
Steven Livingstone-Perez wrote:
> I'd like to see something that adds this to a list of trusted sites
> in the
> browser (built-in or via plug-in). I mean how hard would the logic
> be to
> figure out if a page is requesting myspace authentication
> information and
> display a message saying this is NOT myspace.
>
> There must be software that does this already... I have seen lots of
> phishing software but most isn't in the browser and I haven't seen
> anything
> that interacts with trusted web sites directly so that the official
> myspace
> signup page could signal that they should be trusted to the
> browser. Then
> the user could be informed of any attempts to get myspace user
> authentication information.
>
> In other words take the "DON'T LOG IN" message below and make it
> something
> concrete *in* the browser. My mum would never check the URL
> (although I
> suspect she's also not one of the top 10 myspace users :) ).
As they say in the rails community, please do investigate.
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