[cap-talk] Re: First point of consensus

[Ian G]

Sandro Magi wrote:

> Regardless of what Tyler intends, the petname toolbar seems a good 
> idea (even if only as a firefox extension), as those of us familiar 
> with it can experiment and demonstrate its utility to the developers 
> and the population at large.


If you are interested in experimenting with
toolbars for anti-phishing purposes I suggest
you try this one:

   trustbar.mozdev.com

Which is the logo based one.  There are dozens
of these toolbars, here's a concept I expecially
like because it changes the rules in an interesting
way:

  
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/28/netcraft_antiphishing_toolbar_available_for_download.html
  http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000287.html

Yesterday someone pointed this one out, which
looks like a fairly light weight one:

  www.spoofstick.com

There many others, mostly related to sites like
yahoo.

Certainly, any serious researcher in this space
should download these and try them, it will save
months or years of flawed thinking about what
works and what doesn't.

Disclosure - I *haven't* because I don't have a
firefox that installs them properly ... so I have to
read about them and make a sort of secondary
judgement.  Not a good state of affairs, but not
much I can do about it.

iang

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