Comments on: RE: Phishing for Solutions to Online Crime http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Thu, 24 May 2012 09:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: KyleX http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-55885 KyleX Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:27:10 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/#comment-55885 <p>Great stuff. Your blog is cool to read. KyleX</p> Great stuff. Your blog is cool to read. KyleX

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]]> By: Scott Dier http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-55883 Scott Dier Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:10:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/#comment-55883 <p>I'm sort of surprised that you think a market doesn't exactly exist. Look at the IETF MARID group, which is quickly coming up with a standard to attempt to quash such attacks by making it hard to fake @yourbank.com. Microsoft, yahoo, <a href="http://pobox.com">pobox.com</a>, earthlink, aol, and others are all evaluating technologies that verify that the sender is correct and will stop phishing scams that misrepresent the senders email address. It is expected that as soon as a standard is easily configured on the majority of mailservers that the major players will require it to communicate messages with their users.<br><br>There's a market, and the technology is coming.<br><br>In any case, most phishing attacks are a form of fraud because of the misrepresentation of identity -- I'm fairly sure that is covered (gasp!) under the CAN-SPAM act.</p> I’m sort of surprised that you think a market doesn’t exactly exist. Look at the IETF MARID group, which is quickly coming up with a standard to attempt to quash such attacks by making it hard to fake @yourbank.com. Microsoft, yahoo, pobox.com, earthlink, aol, and others are all evaluating technologies that verify that the sender is correct and will stop phishing scams that misrepresent the senders email address. It is expected that as soon as a standard is easily configured on the majority of mailservers that the major players will require it to communicate messages with their users.

There’s a market, and the technology is coming.

In any case, most phishing attacks are a form of fraud because of the misrepresentation of identity — I’m fairly sure that is covered (gasp!) under the CAN-SPAM act.

]]> By: Scott Dier http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-29636 Scott Dier Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:10:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/#comment-29636 <p>I'm sort of surprised that you think a market doesn't exactly exist. Look at the IETF MARID group, which is quickly coming up with a standard to attempt to quash such attacks by making it hard to fake @yourbank.com. Microsoft, yahoo, pobox.com, earthlink, aol, and others are all evaluating technologies that verify that the sender is correct and will stop phishing scams that misrepresent the senders email address. It is expected that as soon as a standard is easily configured on the majority of mailservers that the major players will require it to communicate messages with their users.</p> <p>There's a market, and the technology is coming.</p> <p>In any case, most phishing attacks are a form of fraud because of the misrepresentation of identity -- I'm fairly sure that is covered (gasp!) under the CAN-SPAM act.</p> I’m sort of surprised that you think a market doesn’t exactly exist. Look at the IETF MARID group, which is quickly coming up with a standard to attempt to quash such attacks by making it hard to fake @yourbank.com. Microsoft, yahoo, pobox.com, earthlink, aol, and others are all evaluating technologies that verify that the sender is correct and will stop phishing scams that misrepresent the senders email address. It is expected that as soon as a standard is easily configured on the majority of mailservers that the major players will require it to communicate messages with their users.

There’s a market, and the technology is coming.

In any case, most phishing attacks are a form of fraud because of the misrepresentation of identity — I’m fairly sure that is covered (gasp!) under the CAN-SPAM act.

]]> By: Anonymous http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-55882 Anonymous Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:30:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/#comment-55882 <p>Since phishing attacks are correlated to firm size and brand id or equity, the law would actually disadvantage larger firms relative to new entrants since it would relieve them of some of the burden of defending their brand equity.<br><br>The costs of phishing are distributed in a disparate fashion, which makes the case for a society-wide, collective response less compelling.</p> Since phishing attacks are correlated to firm size and brand id or equity, the law would actually disadvantage larger firms relative to new entrants since it would relieve them of some of the burden of defending their brand equity.

The costs of phishing are distributed in a disparate fashion, which makes the case for a society-wide, collective response less compelling.

]]> By: Anonymous http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-29635 Anonymous Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:30:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/#comment-29635 <p>Since phishing attacks are correlated to firm size and brand id or equity, the law would actually disadvantage larger firms relative to new entrants since it would relieve them of some of the burden of defending their brand equity.</p> <p>The costs of phishing are distributed in a disparate fashion, which makes the case for a society-wide, collective response less compelling.</p> Since phishing attacks are correlated to firm size and brand id or equity, the law would actually disadvantage larger firms relative to new entrants since it would relieve them of some of the burden of defending their brand equity.

The costs of phishing are distributed in a disparate fashion, which makes the case for a society-wide, collective response less compelling.

]]> By: Henry Clay http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-55881 Henry Clay Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:10:25 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/#comment-55881 <p>By treating this solely as a financial services industry problem, but brushing off the other 23% of victims, is there any potential that you end up increasing barriers to entry in those other industries that suffer phishing attacks? In other words, if no legislation is necessary because we're willing to allow large entities to continue to defend their brands, what does that do to, say, an upstart competitor to eBay? Obviously that upstart won't instantly be a target because the phishers won't go after them until they have <em>some</em> brand ID, and perhaps that's the answer to my question.....<br><br>HC</p> By treating this solely as a financial services industry problem, but brushing off the other 23% of victims, is there any potential that you end up increasing barriers to entry in those other industries that suffer phishing attacks? In other words, if no legislation is necessary because we’re willing to allow large entities to continue to defend their brands, what does that do to, say, an upstart competitor to eBay? Obviously that upstart won’t instantly be a target because the phishers won’t go after them until they have some brand ID, and perhaps that’s the answer to my question…..

HC

]]> By: Henry Clay http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-29634 Henry Clay Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:10:25 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/08/17/re-phishing-for-solutions-to-online-crime/#comment-29634 <p>By treating this solely as a financial services industry problem, but brushing off the other 23% of victims, is there any potential that you end up increasing barriers to entry in those other industries that suffer phishing attacks? In other words, if no legislation is necessary because we're willing to allow large entities to continue to defend their brands, what does that do to, say, an upstart competitor to eBay? Obviously that upstart won't instantly be a target because the phishers won't go after them until they have <em>some</em> brand ID, and perhaps that's the answer to my question.....</p> <p>HC</p> By treating this solely as a financial services industry problem, but brushing off the other 23% of victims, is there any potential that you end up increasing barriers to entry in those other industries that suffer phishing attacks? In other words, if no legislation is necessary because we’re willing to allow large entities to continue to defend their brands, what does that do to, say, an upstart competitor to eBay? Obviously that upstart won’t instantly be a target because the phishers won’t go after them until they have some brand ID, and perhaps that’s the answer to my question…..

HC

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