On 06/13/09 13:06, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> http://arxivblog.com/?p=332
>>
>> Firefox warns about that website.
>>
>>
http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://arxivblog.com/?p=332
>>
>
> You know, I'd hate to be in charge of writing a program to do that sort
> of detection. That just sounds like an awful, tedious, but nevertheless
> highly valuable application.

	It's a helpful service. It's helpful as long as there are almost no 
false positives - even if it's poor at detecting true positives.

	I had a Wordpress blog on my site once. I stopped doing anything with 
it, and someone pointed out that FF was giving this error (I hadn't gone 
to it for months). Sure enough, there had been a WP exploit and the blog 
had been hacked.

-- 
Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots.


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