Re: Proposal to anti-phishing

In-Reply-To: <001201c50279$13fc5710$1464110a@bigdog>

All,

I am against blaming the victim in the case of phishing. It is a new technology 
and individuals are just becoming aware of the potential pitfalls. 

While it is true that there are other ways to trick a user (phone, fax, etc?), 
the economics of phishing are significantly different. One phish email could 
net thousands of responses, but it would take thousands of phone calls to net 
one victim.

Phishing can be solved through technology and banks are beginning to understand 
the financial and reputation impact on their business.

Mike Podanoffsky
http://www.sharecube.com


Kurt wrote:

> Please kill this thread, it's gotten completely silly.
>
> If user's are willing to go to a website of unknown providence and type in 
> their credit card # no amount of technology will help, attackers will find a 
> way to trick users (phone, fax, email, web, whatever, none of this is really 
> new).
>
>
> Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org
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