I was burned by this one! Graham Cluley writes a nice article on his blog called Twitter phishers are after your password
What was really appalling to me was getting burned by this screen:
Twitter, like Facebook, lets you use other sites by handling authorization. I’d been having serious problems with Twitter not accepting my password (as were thousands of others, apparently) and it just got fixed last week. So even though I was logged in and active on twitter.com, I wasn’t surprised to be prompted to login. And I didn’t look closely enough at the URL.
Of course I wasn’t surprised to see this:
Takeaways? Twitter has becoming more and more reliable. They are fixing bugs. And we all need to watch where we’re going - sometimes we think we’re someplace we’re not.
images courtesy of Sophos I copied them so they won’t take their bandwidth or disappear if they change their links.
If you’re like me and like to read your feeds sorted by tags, you’ll find yourself jumping from blog to blog. Some Greasemonkey styles for Google Reader drop the feed name to save space, making it hard to tell articles apart.
Color is an efficient way to cue people that things are changing. Unless you’re color-blind, I guess. But since I’m not, I appreciate the Google Reader - Colorful List View script because it makes it simple to tell that there’s different feeds.
Note: updated to show correct script
This Greasemonky script Greasefire :: Firefox Add-ons looks interesting but it doesn’t run on Firefox 3.1 beta, which I’m running now. I find the Greasemonkey scripts for Google Reader very helpful.
It’d be nice to look into later.
If you’re like most people, you’ve got more feeds in your news reader than you can keep up with. What’s neat about this script is that it not only makes it easy to subscribe but also shows you if it’s already in your subscription list. If it is, it’s shown with a checkmark over the RSS icon.
My only objection is that it’s not posted to UserScripts, a central repository for Greasemonkey scripts.
Smart Google Reader Subscribe Button is highly recommended.
