Re:Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
by lorenzoguerra on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:06AM
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it's 100% for what they call "deep scan", it's 66.7% for the "automatic scan". Practically unusable anyway
Re:Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
by eurleif on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:02AM
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A very long time ago, I had the idea to set up a joke site advertising "SpamZero, the world's best spam filter", with a bunch of hype about how it never, ever misses spam. When you clicked the download link, the joke would be revealed: you would get a file consisting of `function isSpam(msg) { return true; }`.
Apparently that's not a joke anymore?!
the false positive rate is 100%. they just say everything is phishing:
"When we ran the full dataset through the deep scan, it caught every single confirmed phishing site with zero false negatives. The tradeoff is that it flagged all 9 of the legitimate sites in our dataset as suspicious, which is worth it when you're actively investigating a link you don't trust."