Aug
17th
2005
Anti-Phishers Pose As Phishers
For all fellow geeks who have seen The Princess Bride.
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes “This article notices a new trend in efforts to fight phishing: Anti-fraudsters are posing as phishers to ‘to train users to be more careful about sharing sensitive information online.’ Or, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, ‘To fight computer crime, the good guys are masquerading as bad guys pretending to be good guys.’
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Hiiii, Doug!
just passing by… thought you should have a look at that.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-18T123305Z_01_MCC845161_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&related=true
Hey Dougy… you’ve gone corporate… where’s my daily mitch? All I can find is ads?
What gives?