the funniest bit about this article is how much Scott seems to be taken by this concept. These kind of studies, that is Usability and Security, are becoming more frequent as more people look at this. There is actually a book title "Usability and Security" that is a few years old on this very subject. I am personally not surprised much. I mean, if the browsers have been giving good, intuitive visual clues for a while now and people educated enough on the problem of phishing then phishing wouldn't be so bloody lucrative now would it? The truth is that possible solutions are multi-pronged. We need people to be taught critical thinking in school and we need to develope the Usability of the tools we use. Of course, How easily would people be manipulated for political reasons if they were all critical thinkers? hence it's not part of the standard curriculum in public schools these days...

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