Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

Re:Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha) by bambax on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:02AM (#1921551)

All modern browsers deal with phising without destroying information; just alert the user that the site they're visiting is not what it claims to be.

If users don't look at the address bar and don't understand urls, how are they going to tell something is amiss when they visit the following domains (all available at the time of writing):

- gnail.fr - gnail.me - gmail.se.com - gmail.uk.net - yahooo.uk.com - yahooo.eu.com

Only showing the domain does not help the non-technical user: you can have a fake domain look quite legitimate to the non-technical eye.

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Re:Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha) by Lagged2Death on Friday November 19, 2010 @11:32AM (#1921805)

Hiding part of the URL is what every browser currently does, when the URL gets long enough. Does that count as "destroying information?" The Opera alpha shows the whole URL when you click on the address field.

I think I'd be more likely to notice typos like "yahooo" or "gnail" with the new display method, without the noise of a thousand-character URL surrounding them. That is by no means the be-all and end-all of anti-phishing technology. It's just giving me one more chance to see something that might be amiss.

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