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Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking
From: Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:31:06 +0200
On 2008-09-30 Razi Shaban wrote:
I'd say it's closer to 100% unreliable than to 100% reliable.Prove it.
Let's see you prove your "close to 100% reliable" claim first, shall we?
But even if it isn't, how do you calculate the chances? You just have too many variables.You don't need chances,
Is that so? You don't care at all about how many phishig attempts remain undetected?
you just need to know that the majority of people on the internet have no clue what they're doing. This is true. Thus, it is likely that the script will be run.
Phishers, however, don't tend to be among the (admittedly large) group of people without a clue, so the script most likely won't be run in exactly those situations it was made to detect.
You noticed the word "security" in this mailinglist's name? What makes you think a measure of questionable reliability could possibly count as a security measure?If you read the original post, you would notice that the goal here is to "be alerted" when a phishing attack occurs.
If you read my posts, you would notice that I strongly doubt that this "alerting" is going to happen. For the reasons I outlined. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "The Mac OS X kernel should never panic because, when it does, it seriously inconveniences the user." --http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2118.html
Current thread:
- RE: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking, (continued)
- RE: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Matt Flynn (Sep 26)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Razi Shaban (Sep 26)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Ansgar Wiechers (Sep 29)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Razi Shaban (Sep 29)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Ansgar Wiechers (Sep 29)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Razi Shaban (Sep 30)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Ansgar Wiechers (Sep 30)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Ryan Greenier (Sep 30)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Ansgar Wiechers (Sep 30)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Razi Shaban (Sep 30)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Razi Shaban (Sep 29)
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- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Ansgar Wiechers (Sep 30)
- Re: Anti-Phishing with digital watermarking Razi Shaban (Sep 30)