Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Fri Feb 10 18:00:10 UTC 2012
----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us>
> Big problem with clickable objects which lead to PII (personally
> identifiable information) or passwords. That's how phishing works -- a
> disguised url that you either see at all or whose incorrect nature
> slips right past your brain. The only known working solution is to
> train folks to *never* click security-related URLs in email. Copy and
> paste only, and only if they're readable and read right.
And right there, Bill, is the part we so rarely understand, and it kills us:
Even lots of *technical* people just don't understand what "a security-
related URL" *is*, and there's almost always no way to teach them.
So it's necessary to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and tell them
never to click on a link... MUA's that support HTML at all, much less
they fail to tell the user when a text URL doesn't match the actual link,
are the underlying culprits here...
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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