[LINK] PayPal to Safari users: 'Ditch it'

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Wed Mar 5 10:57:28 AEDT 2008


Scott Howard wrote:

> On 3/4/08, *Rick Welykochy* <rick at praxis.com.au 
>     How does it work? By checking a blacklist of known phishing sites.
>     That is about as effective as the proposals to save Aussie Children
>     from the Internet. It simply does not work very well.
> 
> Email RBL's and the like have become an expected part of most email 
> solutions now days, and have shown themselves to be highly effective - 
> especially if done right.  Why shouldn't the same concept be used for web?

Good point. I had a rethink of what I wrote later on this morning
and the blacklists are better than nothing. It is called harm
minimisation, and is not guaranteed 100%. I am running an email
server and am thankful for thousands of spam emails per day that
are discarded before burdening the server with unwanted traffic.

If phishing blacklists can save a few victims from losing their
hard earned $$$, all the better.

To coin an adage, "On the Internet, nothing is 100% certain".

It would be interesting to hear about how successful law enforcement
is in the phishing sector. About as successful as against spam? It
is probably very difficult to track phishers since they can hide behind
an zombie bot army.


cheers
rickw



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