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However, the article also mentioned that this could be used to immitate services other than gmail. I still buy the idea that people don't always look at the url
by Wilduck 16y ago
However, the article also mentioned that this could be used to immitate services other than gmail. I still buy the idea that people don't always look at the url when they switch back to a tab.
Do you have the same practices with facebook and your bank account as you do with gmail?
- indrax 16y agoFacebook might get me, but I find it annoying. They would need to guess my bank first, and guessing wrong would set off alarm bells. (Moreso now than before I heard of this) Slightly related: I think new tabs should inherit history, so that I can clearly see how I got somewhere. If I don't remember having a tab with my bank login in it, and I see that I got there from reddit, I know things are very wrong. As it is, Most things I find on reddit open in tabs with no history, so they'd look exactly like I opened the directly.
- nhebb 16y agoI go one beyond with banking, PayPal, and other financial sites. I login with a single tab open. I log out when I'm done, and then I close the browser. Still, it's a pretty clever phishing attack, and I bet it would fool a lot of people. What I didn't get from the article was whether this was something Aza Raskin has seen, or a is it something that he thought up. If the later, then I'm not too sure about the scruples of publishing this trick while promoting the password manager in FF.