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RE: The solution to Phishing


From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 04:08:01 GMT

Not sure if anyone else has seen the L.A. Times article on Sunday:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-scammers20oct20,0,7003468.story?coll=la-home-world

It's definately worth the read.

Also worth a read:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051025/1030224_F.shtml


Never attribute to cluelessness, or ignorance, what you may
be able to attribute to mailce or corruption.

- ferg




-- "Aditya Deshmukh" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway strangled net> wrote:

To start up a bank. What, did you think that was impossible? Lots of
people have done it, you don't need a licence (provided you pretend that
you aren't a bank) and you don't even need any capital. The one that comes
most readily to mind is Paypal.

And in the New Zealand Fitzgerald Bank, online services will only be
available to those who can demonstrate a degree of Clue. Alternatively, in
the NZFB, online services will use an authentication system that can't be
phished.

This bank would be perfect for all 419 emails that need my account to 
transfer millions from some "suspense account" or "inheretance" 



--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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