2009-11-02 03:55 pm
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Just because you know Flash doesn't mean you can design a site

I would like to nominate Verizon's Droid phone website for a Giving-Flash-A-Bad-Name award. Seriously. The intro is ok, in fact, it's a more effective sales pitch than the actual site, which:

- Hung on a blank screen the first time I tried to load it
- Makes you read menu text that is upside down and sideways
- Has non-link text scattered at random throughout the menu
- Requires a click and an animation PER SENTENCE of information
- Has a Store Locator link that goes to the wrong page on Verizon's site

I'm far from a pro at interface design, but my mind reels nonetheless. Seriously, someone go paid for this? It's silly for me to get this worked up over crappy web design, I know, but urgh. =:\

...still want one of them phones, though.

/rant.
2009-07-08 09:36 am
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Excuse me while I vent...

Update Mea culpa. It turns out I was the one who had it wrong after all. The email said to "reply to this message with.." all the phish'd information. I'd seen the url (which is still a suspicious-looking url) and thought it was directing people there. *sigh*. Well, that was embarrassing. Maybe that'll teach me to skim things and assume I understand. =:\



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Going to have a little mini-rant here, so I can hopefully then move on and stop thinking about it (nothing heavy, just annoying, and the annoyance is taking up cycles I don't have to spare right now). Heck, maybe I'm missing something, too. If so I'd appreciate having it pointed out.

See, I received a phishing email that said "blah blah blah your account may have been compromised blah blah, go to https: //mail.sover.net/l and enter your username, old password, new password and DOB or we will de-activate your account" (the mis-formatting in the url was added by me to keep it from linking, even though the phishing site has since disappeared).

For those not familiar with phishing scams, a url like "https: //mail.sover.net/l" basically says "Hello, I am a server that someone broke into and set up a hostile site on in a subdir they hope no one will notice until they've hooked some victims".

I looked up the domain's support and abuse addresses and forwarded them the message. Their response was:
Correspondance cut for those who don't care )