Re: Thieves Steal Herman Munster's Identity

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:14:54 EDT, Kradorex Xeron said:

> Why not take that to the extreme? throw so much illegitimate data into their
> databases they won't know what is legitimate and what isn't, perhaps thus
> making phishing not very profitable. and/or cause them more trouble than it's
> worth.

Remember - if 10,000 idiots fall for the phish, we'd have to feed them 40,000
bogus entries to dilute it only to 20% valid info - and the phishers can
usually verify the data easily enough.  And it gets difficult to feed them
40K entries if they implement simple checks like "No more than 3 different
data points from the same IP address", unless you intend to use a botnet to
do the feeding...

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