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F-Secure hysterically proposes .safe domain to ICANN
Posted on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 under web design news by Dustin Brewer.In the increasing meddling of companies that have just failed their current business model it seems that security firm F-Secure is attempting to suggest to the ICANN that another new domain name .safe needs to be imposed to provide a secure means for financial institutions to protect their customers from phishing. Not only is this idea just as silly as the .xxx idea but it isn’t the solution to the problem by a long shot.It is like saying that you are going to move New York City to Oklahoma City because it is more difficult for terrorists to get to Oklahoma City. This is all ridiculous because just moving things around is a very temporary fix. The ultimate solution isn’t to cause developers more strife by making some new security system but it is to police these phishing sites and block them at the host level.
Phishing is a very very basic way to trick customers into giving out their financial information without noticing that the web site they are visiting is an IP address and not their financial institutions domain name. Implementing a .safe domain name is just adding to the already unnecessary domain names that exist, for instance .mobi doesn’t really make any sense. There are already means for developers to provide better access to mobile users without adding a new and more expensive useless solution.
Basically law enforcement and security firms needs to just do their job and not blame the system for its flaws, the system is perfect. They just need to protect the people they are sworn to protect by going after the bad guys. Simple as that.
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