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Re: New Credit Card Scam (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Holt)
Tue Jul 12 13:11:22 2005
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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:01:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jason Holt <jason@lunkwill.org>
To: Lance James <lancej@securescience.net>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <42D30B23.6060504@securescience.net>
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Lance James wrote:
[...]
> place to fend off these attacks. Soon phishers will just use the site itself
> to phish users, pushing away the dependency on tricking the user with a
> "spoofed" or "mirrored" site.
[...]
You dismiss too much with your "just". They already do attack plenty of
sites, but they also phish because it has a larger return on investment.
Security is the process of iteratively strengthening the weakest links in the
chain.
-J
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