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Re:Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:46AM (#47263922)
The 9/9 is actually crazy, and then they posted about it as if they found something? What they did was find a major issue in their own process and then told the world about it, that just doesn't seem right.
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Re:Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites by trehalose on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:06PM (#47264190)
It would seem their service identifies only phishing sites as legitimate ones. It would seem 100% of sites they deem legitimate are phishing sites. Incredible.
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Re:Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites by thrwaway55 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:34PM (#47264625)
The deep scan detected all phishing sites correctly with the unfortunate tagging of legit sites as phishing too. I imagine their code looks something like isPhishing = true.
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Re:Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites by andoando on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:57PM (#47265700)
lol
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Re:Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites by saalweachter on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:45PM (#47264771)
Crazy, and also like, 9? The sample size in that part of your test suite is 9?
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