Comments on: Firefox to get phishing shield

Upcoming version of the open-source browser will offer protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google.

[FutureGuy]

GooFox??

Is it just me or does it look more and more like Google owns Firefox?

[Johnny Mnemonic]

it's just you

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[Leppard]

Yup... Just you

Firefox is open source.. no one owns it.

[Cyrus_K]

U are right: BigMedia owning the "eye ball" of the planet!

No, it is not just you.
Google does own Firefox now, for all practical purposes.
After all Firefox is funded by Aol-Timewarner-CNN and Aol has Billions of dollars in Googloool stock as well as Googloool having invested a few Billions of dollars in Aol-Timewarner-CNN.

It is called Big-Media owning the "eye ball" of the planet!

[kamwmail-cnet1]

Here's a deterant: Make It A Death Penalty.

Than outsource the capture part to the Israelies. Israelies don't care which country/jurisdiction the phishing scum is in. Scum will be captured, just like the Nazi scums were.

With enough hanged, others will find a safer means of scamming for money.

[KsprayDad]

Ummm...ya.

Who phissed in your cornflakes?

[S Nijs]

Request to C|NET

Please incluse PLONK features in your talkback feature, so I don't have to look at anything from this person again.
Talking about "you b. stupid"...

[booboo1243]

RE: Here's a deterant: Make It A Death Penalty.

As an Israeli, I have no idea what you're talking about. It's all ********.


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[KsprayDad]

Firefox Bloat

I love Firefox...I've been using it for years but I fear that as time marches forward they are going more and more to the feature bloat that is IE/Netscape.

Firefox is/was supposed to be a smaller footprint product with users that tended to be a little bit more sophisticated than average when it came to 'how does my computer work'. I would imagine that these users rarely became victims of phishing. Now that FF is more mainstream they have to add bloat to keep the 'casual' users that NEEDS protection. They seem to be going in the direction of building it in and forcing users to have it instead of using the extension route.

As stated in the article Firefox already works with Google's antiphishing tech BUT I am currently not FORCED to have it as part of my browser.

I hope Firefox remembers that the beauty/sucess of their product is the small footprint and customization and NOT being someother companies pimp.

I forsee another split in the Mozilla world where you get the current corporate Mozilla rebranding as a GoogleFox browser and the old school continuing on with an independant product that we had until recently.

[Cyrus_K]

Yes, you love everything from Google/BigMedia

We already know that you love eveything form Google & its Big-Media brethern (AOL-Timewarner-CNN/Firefox).

So do you work for Google? Are you Google share holder or let me guess webmaster making money off Google AdSense (aka click-fraud :)

A day late & a dollar short

I'm already using IE7 with Phishing protection. Firefox is just copying a great innovator.

Well, swap the names around & that's what people have been saying about M$ & everyone else - that M$ was just copying. Makes a change to see it the other way round.

P.S. IE7 still lags behind the rest. I only use it on those sites that Opera doesn't work. But as a user, that's actually pretty great recommendation - use IE. It works on those sites that don't take Amer.....whoops, slipped into a certain credit card commercial for a moment.

[gunnyhudson]

Phishing Shield

Like hacking, virus & worm making, and spam selling, I would like to see some serious controls put on all of them. Phishing is especially harmful due to the economic effect that it has on everyone through ID theft, bank account draining, and good name/credit destruction. A program needs to be developed to stop it entirely and prosecutors need to put those people who phish into prison (hard labor) for 20 years. The damage they do is consierable.

[map-maker]

Phishing Counterattack

Extensive efforts to block phishing at the destination of the attack (your PC) will never be a substitute for blocking it at the source, just as it isn't for Spam. The Internet Community (e.g., IETF) need to come up with effective ways to block it all at the source.

In the meantime, has anyone done anything to counterattack the phishers by flooding their sites with bogus information (credit card numbers, passwords, etc)? If they get millions of bogus sets of data, it should make it pretty hard for them to use the couple sets of valid data they get from those who don't recognize this as an attack.