Inside Safari 3.2's Anti-Phishing Feature

MacWorld is running a piece from MacJournals.com's for-pay publication detailing how the Safari browser's anti-phishing works. The article takes Apple to task for not thinking enough of its users to bother telling them when Safari sends data off to a third party on their behalf. For it seems that Safari uses the same Google-based anti-phishing technology that Firefox has incorporated since version 2.0, but, unlike Mozilla, tells its users nothing about it. "Even when phrased as friendly to Apple as we can manage, the fact remains that after installing Safari 3.2, your computer is by default downloading lots of information from Google and sending information related to sites you visit back to Google — without telling you, without Apple disclosing the methods, and without any privacy statement from Apple."

Comments

Re:Sugar-coated for wimpy palates

[13bPower]

Don't you EVER bad mouth Ferraro Rocher!

So...

[owlnation]

Even as a Mac fanboy I could care less. I want to use Safari, especially since Firefox is not the best on a Mac. However, no flashblock, no adblock -- no use. I'm reluctantly sticking with Firefox.

Antiphishing technology is of little to no value to me, flashblock and adblock are essential on the web. Steve, call me when Safari is web ready, without these tools it simply is not.

Re:Hey - Apple didn't promise anything.

[Ihmhi]

Yeah, they call it iEvil. It's pronounced how Obi Wan pronounces evil in A New Hope.