{"id":35,"date":"2007-02-14T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-02-14T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T07:12:00","slug":"an-apalling-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/hotmail\/an-apalling-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"An apalling scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qaL4OIAxMSA\/RdK32rrACQI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/i13lyxIGvoo\/s1600-h\/ringo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qaL4OIAxMSA\/RdK32rrACQI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/i13lyxIGvoo\/s400\/ringo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ringo Invitation\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I got an invitation to join ringo.com, a photo and video sharing network. A friend had uploaded some photos. So I thought why not- I get to the second screen and it asks not only for my hotmail email address but the password. WTF!<\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t know ringo from anybody-but nobody gets my hotmail password. Their idea is obviously to pick up all your friends email addresses from the contact list and invite them to join. Oh very neat- like we haven&#8217;t got enough spammers in the world already without me helping a site grow off this.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know ringo so why on earth should I trust them with this? This is an incredibly stupid policy. Their privacy policy is not exactly truthful either &#8220;The minimum information we require for a membership on Ringo is full name, date of birth, username, password and verified email address. &#8220;. Password? Yes, fine for the site, not for my hotmail account! Oh sure I could sign up and get a free email account but why should I? As you can see from the screen shot, its not optional either. no password, no signup. Stupid, stupid, stupid. <span>Just avoid them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Final thought. Does hotmail know about this? I can&#8217;t imagine they&#8217;d be too happy with members supplying their hotmail login credentials to another site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got an invitation to join ringo.com, a photo and video sharing network. A friend had uploaded some photos. So I thought why not- I get to the second screen and it asks not only for my hotmail email address but the password. WTF! Now I don&#8217;t know ringo from anybody-but nobody gets my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,37,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotmail","category-ringo","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}