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Browsers, phishing, and user interface design
Scott Granneman, 2006-06-05

Phishing works for so many reasons, we need to rethink browser and user interface design to provide some real-life security to the average user who doesn't see or understand the security cues.

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Sure. Lots of ideas... 2006-06-05
Anonymous (2 replies)
Your First Statement Is Right 2006-06-06
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: Your First Statement Is Right 2006-06-07
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: Sure. Lots of ideas... 2006-06-24
Anonymous
Browsers, phishing, and user interface design 2006-06-07
GeeksAreSexy
I read this sentence somewhere recently, not sure where, but it caught my attention: "Security is a process, not a product"

I think this sentence resumes the situation fairly well, the only way we'll be able to sensibilize people to the plague that is phishing is by educating them about security. One of the major problem with this is that people don't care! The only way to make them care would be to instill in them a sense of paranoia, but having a population that is universally paranoiac can't be a good thing :)

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Send them to AOL 2006-06-07
Anonymous
Stop babying people 2006-06-09
Anonymous
Wrong end to start patching 2006-06-12
Thomas Nilsen (1 replies)
Re: Wrong end to start patching 2006-06-12
Anonymous
Ingredients of possible solutions 2006-06-16
S. Lo Presti
Users ignore alert messages... 2006-06-20
Anonymous
simple: 2006-06-24
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