Friday, 19th January 2007
The NHL’s All-Star voting disaster. The NHL ran an online poll to decide which players are picked for their All-Star Game. The only authentication was a poorly implemented CAPTCHA. Unsurprisingly, it got gamed.
MySpace Blocking Widgets? Making your business dependent on revenue from MySpace is sharecropping of the worst possible kind.
Introducing: World Explorer and TagMaps. “Can we automatically extract information from Flickr geotagged images to create a rich visualization of the world we live in? The answer is: you bet.”
TagMaps. The toolkit behind the new YRB World Explorer, available to developers as a reusable Flash component.
Solving the OpenID phishing problem
Most of the arguments I hear against OpenID are based on mis-understandings of the specification, but there is one that can’t be ignored: OpenID is extremely vulnerable to phishing.
[... 531 words]Links to academic papers on phishing. Posted to the openid-general list by Mike Beltzner.
I can also sum things up for you even more succinctly:
- users are task oriented, driving to complete the goal the
quickest way possible- users pay more attention to the content area than the browser chrome
- users don't understand how easy it is to spoof a website