Google's Anti-Phishing Tech to be part of FireFox 2
"Anti-phishing capability, which Mozilla has branded "Safe Browsing," is one of the marquee features in Firefox 2.0 and one of the reasons a third alpha is necessary... It is also built into the Google Toolbar, which is available for both Firefox and IE.
Safe Browsing inspects a visited site against a regularly updated list of known phishing sites. The list of phishing sites may be downloaded automatically within the browser or can optionally be checked against Google's online list of known miscreants."
It's interesting to see some of the 'responsibility' for this kind of protection shifting from the email server and/or client to the browser.
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Safe Browsing inspects a visited site against a regularly updated list of known phishing sites. The list of phishing sites may be downloaded automatically within the browser or can optionally be checked against Google's online list of known miscreants."
It's interesting to see some of the 'responsibility' for this kind of protection shifting from the email server and/or client to the browser.
read more | digg story
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