At 8:10 AM -0800 12/14/02, James A. Donald wrote:
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>There is at present a storm of cons trying to fool people to
>log in to fake e-gold sites.
>
>It seems to me that one way around this is to use custom
>encryption and a special client with idiosyncratic and not
>easily faked appearance, rather than https encryption.
>
...

I think this is an interesting idea, but aside from getting users
to install something and cross-platform issues there's a huge
problem with doing this... The user's computer itself.

I've come to the reluctant conclusion that users' computers
are the major part of this problem. Computer-security as most
people practice it is woefully-inadequate, so the solution has
to be something that's physically not a part of their (insecure)
computers, IMO.
JMR

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