Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1?

CrazyCanucklehead writes "Security Researcher Michael Sutton discusses his findings when looking at the advertised anti-phishing features in the recently released iPhone OS 3.1. It turns out that the protection is far less than what is provided in OS X and the feature may not provide any protection at all."

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Far Less than OS X

[neonprimetime]

It turns out that the protection is far less than what is provided in OS X and the feature may not provide any protection at all.

the iphone in general contains far less than what is provided in OS X so this doesn't come as a surprise to me.

now, whether or not iphone 3.1 phishing protection is a big oversite on apple's part is another discussion and a worthy one at that

Re:Far Less than OS X

[Hurricane78]

the iphone in general contains far less than what is provided in a real smartphone so this doesn't come as a surprise to me.

There, fixed that for ya!

*ducks*

I've got built-in phishing protection.

[jtownatpunk.net]

It works really well. If I don't know how I got to a site, I don't enter my banking information. Simple. It's amazing how well that works. If I get an email from "my bank" asking me to click on a link to verify something, I don't click on the link. If I think that it has the slightest chance of being legit, I'll open a web browser and type my bank's URL in by hand and log into my account. If the original email was legit, I'll be prompted to do whatever it is they need. If I get an email asking me to reply with my username and password, I know it's a scam. How could anyone NOT know that's a scam? It's not frickin' rocket science.

Instead of putting all this effort into anti-phishing technology, we should make people less stupid.