Don't Trust Your Eyes or URLs (was Re: TidBITS#766/14-Feb-05)

[Marcel Popescu]

> From: owner-cypherpunks at Algebra.COM [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at Algebra.COM]
> On Behalf Of R.A. Hettinga

> >Don't Trust Your Eyes or URLs
> >-----------------------------
> >  by Glenn Fleishman <glenn at tidbits.com>

> >  The likelihood of falling victim to
> >  a spoofed URL on the Web itself is less likely, assuming you start
> >  from a site that's a relatively trusted source.

Actually, as we've seen in probably the first example of this technique, you
can start from a bid on eBay which says "click here to pay with PayPal", and
get somewhere else; and one will likely assume the best, since he trusts
eBay.

Marcel


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