There's a new thing going around. "Anti-Phishing" technology. What is anti-phishing technology? Well... It's technology to prevent phishing. What is phishing? Well... there lies the problem.
Phishing is essentially when a bad person spoofs a legit website to obtain user information. So, the user enters their username and password into this fake site because they think it's a real site. The user info is sent to the bad person's database instead of the real site's user authentication system. The bad person uses that information to rack up charges, empty bank accounts, etc.
It's a scam, obviously. That can only effect stupid people. People who deserve to get phished. In the majority of cases, people like e-bay will say something like, "This is the only ONLY URL that you should be logging into: http://someURL.com". When a phisher sends the face address for users to 'login to', the url looks like this: http://avalulmmveriuo.com/userloginpage/. Only a fucking moron would click on said fake url. in the case of a clickage, only a really big fucking moron would not bother to check that this e-bay address is actually an e-bay address.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that anyone who falls for a phishing deserves to get phished. Instead of creating all this anti-phishing technology, they need to educate the masses on phishing. Sure. It happens, but it would happen a lot less if people knew what they were dealing with. It's like creating anti-fire technology instead of telling people that FIRE WILL BURN YOU.
~~Ben