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Re:Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards by mattchue on Monday September 28, 2015 @07:34PM (#10293864)
Doesn't this make it incredibly easy for phishing websites to be created? I suppose such websites would exist anyway, but this would certainly diminish a user's ability to differentiate between a legitimate .gov or another page with malicious intent at a glance.
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Re:Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards by chuckgreenman on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:38PM (#10294118)
That was my thought at first glance too, however it is already really easy to just download a sites assets and make a mock up.

Sometimes you just have to trust that people are going to pay attention before submitting sensitive information on the net.

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Re:Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards by lockes5hadow on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:08AM (#10295364)
Not any easier than it already is. There are tools like Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) that make it dead simple to launch all sorts of phishing attacks.
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