Question/PSA: Goodreads

[scottsch]

A friend invited me to this book blogging site, so I started to sign up. Step 2 is to give your hotmail/yahoo/gmail username and password so that it can invite your friends. And that particular page is not secure. (The browser doesn't have a lock icon in the lower right. Though it's possible that submitting that information goes to a secure

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[perich]

Step 2 is to give your hotmail/yahoo/gmail username and password so that it can invite your friends

Facebook's the same. I skipped that step without a second thought.

[hober]

You can skip that step.

[amapola_t]

Oops for not considering that. I rawther liked that part since it allowed me to find the other people I know on the site.

[jhonen_red]

Interesting. Both Facebook and LinkedIn have the same mechanism, and I used it for Facebook, and I think it was worthwhile there. But those sites both have secure pages.

The page for this book-related site, on the other hand, is insecure. I'm not willing to submit my real password to try it out, but I used a fake address / password and it reloaded the page with the address and password in the source, in plaintext. Don't use that feature.

[scottsch]

Thanks!