Monday, September 19, 2011

Hall of shame: Ticketmaster.com

There are many reason why I despise Ticketmaster, such as their ridulous "because we can" fees, "convenience fee for using the website", "fee for printing your own tickets on your own paper, using your own printer, with various ads on it", etc. 

But this series is about security worst practices, so here goes another password FAIL. 

Extra points for having a timer that gives people 90 seconds to fill in the form, come up with a secure password, and read the T.O.S. and privacy policy (each a couple dozen pages).

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Hall of shame: Priceline.com


When creating an account, I'm asked for my "preferred internet password". 
Seriously?Sound like marketing-speak for "Go ahead and reuse the password here that you use on facebook and bofa.  We don't mind!".

Shame on you for encouraging bad behaviour!

One extra point for "default opt-in"ing the user to the marketing spam.