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List:       openid-user-experience
Subject:    Re: Open Connect - A UX proposal for the OpenStack
From:       Joseph A Holsten <joseph () josephholsten ! com>
Date:       2008-12-21 12:40:40
Message-ID: 2FC94D3A-113A-4E53-946C-F86B8034849D () josephholsten ! com
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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.

http://josephholsten.com

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