Gervase Markham wrote:
Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
What exactly is a 'domain indicator'?
The thing you get in the status bar when visiting an SSL site, which
shows you the domain you are connected to.
Gerv
Oh that :(
Thanks,
Michael.
It looks to me like it doesn't work as well as it claims, though. A
phisher could direct the user via an email to click on a legitimate link
to a proper site - this could be a EULA or something like the GPL. A
second URL could be included in the email below the legitimate URL -
providing the user
Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
What exactly is a 'domain indicator'?
The thing you get in the status bar when visiting an SSL site, which
shows you the domain you are connected to.
Gerv
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Gervase Markham wrote:
Ian G wrote:
Well, I hate to be the wet blanket. Whatever you
want to term it, it was the same thing as happened
to Trustbar, to Gerv's stuff, to the SSH bug fix
suggestions that were filed,
I don't think anything I've suggested has reached a dead end. The only
one I
Ian G wrote:
Well, I hate to be the wet blanket. Whatever you
want to term it, it was the same thing as happened
to Trustbar, to Gerv's stuff, to the SSH bug fix
suggestions that were filed,
I don't think anything I've suggested has reached a dead end. The only
one I've yet implemented (the d
Tony Mechelynck wrote:
~snip~
I'm not convinced the Mozilla Suite is fit for "the average Internet
user" in the same way IE is. Faster bug-fixing also means more frequent
upgrades and more "hassle". IE has a major version upgrade, how often?
every three years? with a bugfix maybe every month or
On Saturday 28 May 2005 11:46, Duane wrote:
> Ian G wrote:
> > The free toolbar, released Tuesday, was downloaded more than 60,000
> > times within hours of its release, according to Netcraft Internet
> > Services Developer Paul Mutton.
>
> Actually I meant to comment on this specifically before.
Ian G wrote:
> On Friday 27 May 2005 18:02, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
>
>>I get already too many emails telling me "this will earn you million
>>dollars in a week", "this will let you make love all night without
>>losing an erection", "get Microsoft and Symantec products at one-tenth
>>the cost",
Ian G wrote:
> The free toolbar, released Tuesday, was downloaded more than 60,000 times
> within hours of its release, according to Netcraft Internet Services
> Developer Paul Mutton.
Actually I meant to comment on this specifically before...
For starters they got slashdotted, which is an e
On Friday 27 May 2005 18:02, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> I get already too many emails telling me "this will earn you million
> dollars in a week", "this will let you make love all night without
> losing an erection", "get Microsoft and Symantec products at one-tenth
> the cost", even spams telling m
On Saturday 28 May 2005 02:14, Tyler Close wrote:
> On 5/27/05, Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And, both petname and trustbar were roundly rejected
> > by the Mozilla security community. Strike two.
>
> My understanding was that no one on this list has the authority to
> introduce a new tool
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Ian G wrote:
> And, both petname and trustbar were roundly rejected
> by the Mozilla security community.
Is there a foundation for this statement? I would really
like to learn what constitutes the Mozilla security community
and what constitutes the authority to speak for it.
On 5/27/05, Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And, both petname and trustbar were roundly rejected
> by the Mozilla security community. Strike two.
My understanding was that no one on this list has the authority to
introduce a new tool into the Firefox UI and the only person who has
that authori
Ian G wrote:
[...]
> As a fundamental tenet of security the developers,
> designers and implementors do not know the user's
> risk preferences, except under certain exceptions.
>
> For many users,
> a little spyware is likely a good choice if it saves them
> from being phished. Spyware clogs the
Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
> I guess you've downloaded it from
> http://toolbar.netcraft.com/install/netcrafttoolbar.xpi and had a look
> at the source, if so, please backup your claim about this (possible)
> privacy issue. Hey, anyone can say/claim anything here, but you should
> at leas
Duane wrote:
Ian G wrote:
Firefox users snap up Netcraft's antiphishing toolbar
Netcraft's toolbar blocks access to reported phishing sites
I grabbed it, tried it and promptly uninstalled it based on how much
information was leaking like a submarine with screen doors back to
netcraft...
S
On Friday 27 May 2005 06:04, Nelson B wrote:
> Duane wrote:
> > Ian G wrote:
> >>Firefox users snap up Netcraft's antiphishing toolbar
> >> Netcraft's toolbar blocks access to reported phishing sites
> >
> > I grabbed it, tried it and promptly uninstalled it based on how much
> > information was le
Duane wrote:
Ian G wrote:
Firefox users snap up Netcraft's antiphishing toolbar
Netcraft's toolbar blocks access to reported phishing sites
I grabbed it, tried it and promptly uninstalled it based on how much
information was leaking like a submarine with screen doors back to
netcraft...
Some
Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Pardon me if I'm obtuse, but it sounds to me like Netcraft doing the
> phishing, under the pretense of protecting the user against it.
I don't think they are collecting data to conduct ID fraud etc, but I do
feel like they are harvesting data not in my or any other users
Duane wrote:
> Ian G wrote:
>
>
>>Notice that both trustbar and petnames tried to work
>>with PKI and augment them. Netcraft ignores it totally,
>>by harvesting data and aggregating it. If that's works,
>>so be it, security is too important to waste on textbook
>>models.
>
>
> the only thing
Ian G wrote:
> Notice that both trustbar and petnames tried to work
> with PKI and augment them. Netcraft ignores it totally,
> by harvesting data and aggregating it. If that's works,
> so be it, security is too important to waste on textbook
> models.
the only thing I have an issue with the ne
On Friday 27 May 2005 01:21, Duane wrote:
> Ian G wrote:
> > Firefox users snap up Netcraft's antiphishing toolbar
> > Netcraft's toolbar blocks access to reported phishing sites
>
> I grabbed it, tried it and promptly uninstalled it based on how much
> information was leaking like a submarine wit
Ian G wrote:
> Firefox users snap up Netcraft's antiphishing toolbar
> Netcraft's toolbar blocks access to reported phishing sites
I grabbed it, tried it and promptly uninstalled it based on how much
information was leaking like a submarine with screen doors back to
netcraft...
Something like
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/26/HNfirefoxnetcraft_1.html
Firefox users snap up Netcraft's antiphishing toolbar
Netcraft's toolbar blocks access to reported phishing sites
By Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service
May 26, 2005
Users of the Firefox Web browser have been flocking to Net
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