[funsec] The solution to Phishing

Jeff Rosowski rosowskij at ie.ymp.gov
Mon Oct 24 15:04:46 CDT 2005


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> The banks should send out bogus messages just like a real phishing attack
> and set up a bogus web site that looks just like their real one.  If a
> customer logs into that site from the phishing e-mail, their internet
> banking privledges are revoked for 30 days.  If it happens again, their
> internet privledges are revoked completely.
>
>  Done and dusted... Kinda like darwinism with a second chance on life ;-)

How about we just ship everyone who falls for a phishing scam off to some 
uninhabited island somewhere.

But really, I think requiring users to use a public/private key system to 
secure all financial transactions would be a good step in the right 
direction.  Though I also see users easily being fooled into screwing up 
even that.  So who knows.

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