Cory Doctorow on Nostr: This is a mistake the finance sector keeps making. 15 years ago, npub1f74a3…ewhet ...

This is a mistake the finance sector keeps making. 15 years ago, npub1f74a3k4l3lh7kvt4s89k0wsgr5w59qrpra0zr0337sk8ucvdwmjqqewhet (npub1f74…whet) excoriated the UK banks for their "Verified By Visa" system, which validated credit card transactions by taking users to a third party site and requiring them to re-enter parts of their password there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090331094020/http://www.links.org/?p=591

This is exactly how a phishing attack works. As Laurie pointed out, this was the banks *training their customers* to be phished.

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