On Sep 12, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Likarish, Peter F wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a grad student doing anti-phishing research and lately I've > been comparing the performance of FF2 and FF3 with regard to site > detection. FF2 has been substantially outperforming FF3 against > our test set of phishing attacks (generally garnered from published > online repositories of phishing attacks). Based on my outsider's > perspective, I was under the impression that both relied on > Google's Safebrowsing and was surprised by the disparity between > versions. I am wondering if this is a generally observed > phenomenon or if we are doing something odd in testing that could > be causing it? If anyone has a chance to enlighten me, I would > greatly appreciate it.
Hi Peter, This sounds like very interesting research. Is there anything that has been published in the public that is available for review? This is not my particular area of expertise but I know a number of Mozilla folks who will want to investigate this with your support. Sincerely, Gen _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
