Text 16786, 52 rader
Skriven 2006-03-24 09:59:10 av Alan Zisman (1:229/2000)
  Kommentar till text 16758 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
Ärende: MicroSoft to fight Phishing
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In article <19016$fido.en.os.win95@JamNNTPd>,
 "Russell Tiedt -> Alan Zisman" <5:7105/1> wrote:

 RT> Hello Alan.

 RT> 23 Mar 06 19:23, you wrote to me:

 GV>>>> Microsoft seeks to catch phishers in legal net
 GV>>>> By Holden Frith

 GV>>>> Microsoft has announced that it is launching legal action
 GV>>>> against more than a hundred "phishing" gangs, which seek to
 GV>>>> trick e-mail users into revealing passwords or credit card
 GV>>>> details and then use them to commit fraud.

 RT>>> What, is it cheaper to pay lawyers, than to fix their software?
 RT>>> :-))

 AZ>> Sorry, Russell-- while I'm as happy to dump on MS as anyone else,
 AZ>> phishing messages are not particularly a Windows issue.

 RT> Agreed, not particularly a Windows issue, but, in my experience, Windows
users
 RT> are the ones that more so that Linux users, are affected/caught by
phishing.


That's probably accurate... but it's not particularly a design fault in
Windows.

Most Linux users are a self-selected minority who have chosen that
operating system because they aware and critical of issues like
operating system security, and who are making active choices.  As a
result, they have probably read about issues like phishing (and spam
filtering) and when they receive a fraudulent email message are more
likely to analyze it critically. When they read about how a link in such
a message apparently pointing to www.paypal.com (or something) actually
points to a numerical address or to a domain in Russia (or somewhere)
they are more likely to understand the implications.

Millions of Windows users, on the other hand, are indifferent to the
computers that they are using at work or at home, have not made an
informed choice about operating systems (and don't care to) and glaze
over when you try to discuss issues involving security.

If they were given Ubuntu or SuSE Linux systems on their desktop by
their employers, they would probably quickly get used to using
OpenOffice.org instead of Word-- and they would be just as quick to fall
for a phishing scam.

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