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posted by CoolHand on Sunday May 03 2015, @06:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-tell-me dept.

I recently updated my list of Seattle Tech Employers. All the way at the bottom is a link to Zoomingo, a local shopping site. When viewed on the iPhone, but not on Android, Windows nor Mac OS X, Zoomingo's Jobs page serves pr0n.

I attempted to contact Zoomingo through their contact page a few days ago but met with no response. I called the Domains by Proxy number listed in their WHOIS, only to reach a totally clueless customer service agent. He was generally nice about it, but quite confused.

"We only pass on your phone messages when they call in for it."

"Suppose they don't call in until a month from now. Are they going to be happy that a local sales website has been serving pr0n for a solid month?"

My understanding is that the Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy requires up-to-date contact information in one's WHOIS record; I recall specifically that a domain was lost due to a stale postal address.

I don't have a problem with WHOIS privacy services but there should be a way for anyone who wants to reach the admin of a faulty server, to reach it immediately.

(My guess is that Zoomingo's jobs page depends on Javascript from some other domain, and that other domain's nameservers have been 0wnz0r3d.)

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Sunday May 03 2015, @07:35AM

    by anubi (2828) on Sunday May 03 2015, @07:35AM (#178069) Journal

    Yeh, I *try* not to enable it, but many businesses flat will not talk to you unless you enable it.

    Now, for a *real* exercise in futility, try to use healthcare.gov with a malware-hardened system!!! I cannot get it to do a thing until I go online to them with complete vulnerability to everything. I am still looking for some way to sign up for healthcare without involving the computer, as once I have anything to do with my government using a computer, I will be highly vulnerable to phish attacks from hoodlums and extortion artists posing as governmental authorities with the ability to penalize and punish me for my failure to obey. So far, my obedience to phishers has been zero. I am comforted that they cannot have me jailed and my assets seized for failure to comply with their demand letters. I would not have that option if it looked like it came from the government. It costs me hundreds of dollars a year these days just to hire the skills to interface to my government to pay my tax. A good round of phish letters could easily cost me several hundred dollars if it trips off having to interface to government.

    I am rather miffed at the American people for not asking their Congressmen to clean up this mess. I would go further on this, but its offtopic, so I will shut up.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @08:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @08:47AM (#178074)

    Run the browser in a chroot-jail (or VM if on windows).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @09:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @09:35AM (#178078)

    Yeah, healthcare.gov is a piece of garbage, which is especially inexcusable because you practically have to use it. This is likely the result of rampant corporatism in government.

    • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday May 03 2015, @10:07AM

      by anubi (2828) on Sunday May 03 2015, @10:07AM (#178080) Journal

      I still have not gotten healthcare.gov to work. It keeps showing me the same page over and over and over.

      It often sends me to pages with nothing on them. Just a logo and a picture of a smiling person. And maybe some comfort words like "we're here to help".

      I do not know what it is I am supposed to use to talk to them. Hell, I have even been having trouble talking to Amazon. The web pages have become so tangled up with scripts that no telling which scripts are getting tangled up in the firewalls or antivirus.

      I sure would like to assess each Congressman who voted this thing in a $95 dollar "responsibility" fee for failure to provide means of compliance with the law they passed.

      As a public, we are sure giving Congress far more authority than responsibility.

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      • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday May 03 2015, @03:57PM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday May 03 2015, @03:57PM (#178137) Journal

        Call to start or finish an application, compare plans, enroll or ask a question.

        1-800-318-2596 / TTY: 1-855-889-4325

        Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Closed Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day.

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        • (Score: 1) by anubi on Monday May 04 2015, @12:07AM

          by anubi (2828) on Monday May 04 2015, @12:07AM (#178278) Journal

          Thanks!

          I kept getting so much run-around I gave up.

          I figured I would rather pay the penalty than spend my time trying to comply. As far as I am concerned, their website just does not work. I do not know why all these "name-brand" people think they can get away with stuff that does not work.

          The problem is that Congress, unlike merchants, has the authority to enforce usage of their site while denying responsibility for even having their site work. Maybe it will on a specific browser/router setup, but it certainly does not work on mine. I believe it is most likely some little script getting hung up in the antivirus or firewall - and their end is not sufficiently robust to maintain connection with the customer in the event of a non-compliant connection. ( Well, I have problems with Amazon, too, but there are many other merchants on the net that work just fine, like Alibris, Ebay, and AliExpress. ).

          Besides I know elections are coming up and this whole thing could get thrown out if enough people like me were sufficiently annoyed by this whole affair.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @10:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @10:58AM (#178089)

    I am rather miffed at the American people for not asking their Congressmen to clean up this mess.

    Where did you hear that congress critters work for the people? Who told you these lies?