Duane wrote:
> Ruari Callow wrote:
>
> > Finally an extra advantage of this method is that it helps prevent
> > other types of spoofing, for example when fraudsters substitute
ASCII
> > characters (e.g. '0' for 'o').
>
> Couple of small things, the sites might figure out some way to
> automatically either by tricking the user to book mark it, or some
> trojan etc to automatically do it (this being the case they have
bigger
> problems) and with the frequantly hit thing you'd have to be careful
as
> to what you count as hits to prevent sites from again tricking the
user
> into a couple of hits to their website, or some javascript to loop
pages
> etc...

If sites are automatically bookmarked that is a new flaw, in which case
it
should be looked at in its own right. Same with the Trojan.

Regarding what counts as hits. I was thinking along the lines of ten
vists
to the site on different days.

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