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Elbonia | reply to Dude111
Re: Can You Identify Phishing? Blue2 and SnowyOne are basically right: the quiz is worthless. But it's actually worse than useless because it teaches people to judge by the wrong criteria.
The most basic thing you need to look at is the URL. It was actually *missing from the picture* in at least one of the questions (I quit at that point). Yes, other clues are important too, but without the URL you can't be sure.
There was another quiz like this with images of emails, asking visitors to spot the phishes. That too was worse than useless: they showed HTML-rendered displays, with all the true URLs behind the links invisible, and the headers not showing. Thus all the relatively reliable indicators of where it came from were missing, and they were effectively training people to rely on superficial appearances instead.
With the amount of effort that's been put into this slick quiz, they could easily have made a good start on teaching people the basic technical facts that would really help them.
The underlying idea seems to be that the public just can't learn anything that involves more text and thinking and less of the colorful pictures. Such idea is stupid and harmful.
'Scuze me for ranting. |
