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Re: [Cryptography] PRISM-Proofing and PRISM-Hardening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salz, Rich)
Mon Sep 30 18:36:00 2013
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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:29:31 -0400
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Bill said he wanted a piece of paper that could help verify his bank's certificate. I claimed he's in the extreme minority who would do that and he asked for proof.
I can only, vaguely, recall that one of the East Coast big banks (or perhaps the only one that is left) at one point had a third-party cert for their online banking and that it "encouraged" phishing of their customers. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#cite_note-87 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#cite_note-88 which say simple things like "show the right image" don't work.
/r$
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