Thu, 06 May 2004

How to stop phishing
Phishing attacks, in which Lying Bastards send law-abiding citizens email messages that claim to be from ebay or paypal or some other legitimate site, can be made much less effective. Here's how to do it: Microsoft needs to alter Outlook Express so that whenever a link is followed from an email message, the name of the site linked to (the rest of the URL would be both confusing and irrelevant here) is displayed in a big ol' font first in a warning dialog box. The user can add the site to an "always okay in email" list if they wish. Phishing becomes 98% less effective and no longer worth the trouble. The crowd goes wild.
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HEY SPAMMER! We use Google's nofollow feature. Search engines will NOT follow your link. And we'll delete it anyway. Save my time and yours. Thank you.

 
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