Slashdot Mirror
F-Secure Responds To Criticism of .bank
Crimson Fire writes "F-Secure recently offered a solution to the problem of bank-account phishing, and the discussion here of a .bank TLD generated some criticism. In their latest blog entry F-Secure has responded point-by-point."
I love her so much that I knock her out. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I feel so trapped and cornered that I'm losing my mind.
I run down the corridor as fast as my legs can take me, vomiting blood as I go.
After that, I don't remember anything of what happened.
I have no memory of it at all.
All I know is that when I come to, I find myself charging into a US Army base, buck naked, with a katana.
I cut down the first soldier I see, trembling with some indescribable emotion, yelling out every curse and swear word I know.
My consciousness fades again, and the next thing I know I've got two severed heads in one hand, and a katana dyed red with blood in the other.
I've been painted by several searchlights, and there's a bunch of U.S. soldiers with assault rifles, grenades, shotguns, machineguns, howitzers, and tanks surrounding my perimeter.
It's a perfect stage on which to die.
This scene reminds me of the famous words of the movie director, Orson Welles.
Then I realize that if there were ever a pro wrestler who used drunkenness as his gimmick, then surely his finishing move would be a Drunkensteiner from the top rope.
And so I cry out:
"Behold! This is the spirit of the kamikaze!"
I lunge as I raise my katana over my head.
"Long live the Emperor!"
Innumerable bullets from a machine gun mow me down.
It's an oddly satisfying sensation.
How best to hand down Gorbachev's revelation to the future generations, dawg?
I don't care HOW historians feel, but I'll NEVER be forgettin' that moment when he got fired up by a 50-cent discount coupon!
Anyway, Osaka Bancho here, suckah. For a cornered Japanese man, maybe kamikaze IS the best option, eh, homes?
Good call, good call. That all-out attack, man, that was THE SHIT.
But, uh, dawg? Yer pretty weak if ya go berserk just from some girl confesin' to 'ya.
The plan is to create a very expensive TLD?
.bank, so it's good!").
What does that help? All it does is raise the barrier of entry for criminals and it provides a false feeling of security to average people (who will think: "Hey! It's
F-Secure is a FUD Factory that creates terrible anti-whatever placebo products (along with some really working proxy products). Instead of fixing their consumer and workstation level products they just buy more search engines and slow the process down even more and eat even more winblowz system resources. Avoid.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
How about this. We attach UZIs to every computer sold. If this URL isn't "green" and the user clicks on it, the UZI will shoot. A lot. And hopefully take out the user. The phishing scam didn't work and the stupid user is dead!
Darwin would love it!
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?