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Re: The real problem that https has conspicuously failed to fix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M.Silvernail)
Mon Jun 9 10:27:52 2003
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From: Roy M.Silvernail <roy@rant-central.com>
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To: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>, cypherpunks@lne.com,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 23:38:03 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20030608231147.GA9890@piper.madduck.net>
On Sunday 08 June 2003 06:11 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> [2003.06.08.2243 +0200]:
> > (When you hit the submit button, guess what happens)
>
> How many people actually read dialog boxes before hitting Yes or OK?
It's slightly more subtle. The action tag of a form submission isn't usually
visible to the user like links are. In the scam copy I received, all the
links save one pointed to legitimate PayPal documents. Only the <form
action= gave it away, and you have to view source to see that.
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