[149649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Fri Feb 10 15:21:50 2012
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m2sjiivbph.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:20:57 -0500
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 10, 2012, at 12:29 30PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> So because of phishing, nobody should send messages with URLs in =
them?
>=20
> more and more these days, i have taken to not clicking the update =
messages,=20
> but going to the web site manyually to get it.
Yup -- I wrote about that a while back =
(https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2011-10/2011-10-02.html)
>=20
> waaaay to much phishing, and it is getting subtle and good.
>=20
What's the line -- "I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?"
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
