[Air-l] Re poor spam scam targetting
elijah wright
elw at stderr.org
Sat Dec 4 11:03:41 PST 2004
> Authorities in the US are calling this scam "phishing." I guess it's a
> play on the word _fishing_, but I doubt it has anything to do with the
> band. :)
"phishing", terminologically, has been around for at least three years in
the e-mail tech community. (think blacklist operators, spam filter
designers, and infrastructure operations folk...)
blaming the "authorities" for the term gives them more credit than they
deserve. they barely understand the problem, much less any possible
solutions (of which i think there are practically none, other than serious
user training / common sense / rhetorical awareness...).
--elijah
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