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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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Re: Browsers, phishing, and user interface design 2006-06-06
Anonymous
> one of the best ways I can think of to help users avoid phishing is to have them read email in plain text.

That might work if the only links people received via email were phishing. The problem is that people receive both good and bad links in their email and they don?t know which links are ...

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