[LINK] OzIT: 'Making online shopping safer'

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:52 AM 8/09/2009, Roger Clarke wrote:
>INTERNET shoppers are being urged to look for a green cue that shows
>a website is legitimate, thanks to a breakthrough intended to give
>greater confidence in online payments.

I use a firefox plugin called WOT, which Web of Trust. It interfaces 
with Yahoo as well as Google. From their website: It will keep you 
safe from online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, viruses and 
unreliable shopping sites.
http://www.mywot.com/
Something like 24,000,000 websites rated.

I've also received warnings directly via some other facility within 
Firefox that brings up an intermediate page of major warning is a 
sight is sus for some reason. Doesn't happen often and is a bit of a 
shock when it does.

Jan


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