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That's what I was thinking of. A simple "hey, just so you know, this website has a pretty small edit distance from "paypal.com" (or ditto with certificate owne
by paultopia 9y ago
That's what I was thinking of. A simple "hey, just so you know, this website has a pretty small edit distance from "paypal.com" (or ditto with certificate owner names). If you're trying to go to the big important financial institution that ain't it, but otherwise click here to carry on."
Not perfect, obvs, but would that be an improvement?
- cdancette 9y agoAnd even sometimes, you can have totally unrelated domains, but the site that looked exactly like PayPal, and people don't look at the domain (sometimes the site doesn't even have a certificate).. Hard to find a solution to this scam problem
- yorwba 9y agoIf you want to throw machine learning at it, the browser could try to predict what site the user thinks they are on, and highlight any discrepancies. The data collection necessary to get an accurate model would however be quite invasive, so I'm not quite sure whether I'd use a browser with that ability. Maybe just having visual fingerprints of the most visited sites and serving them as a static model would be enough.
- cdancette 9y agoYeah, I guess this could work, like the spam filter in your mailbox.