RE: Proposal to anti-phishing

["Lyal Collins" <lyal.collins () key2it com au>]

Cost to the bank may well be the downside.
Domestic experience is that the customer support cost is 4-10 times the
capital cost of the card + reader - education, technical issues and software
compatibility issues to resovle on the customer's PC.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Griffiths, Ian [mailto:ian.griffiths () liv-coll ac uk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 January 2005 4:28 AM
> To: webappsec () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Proposal to anti-phishing
>
>
> Cost to the user - far from a downside - if a smartcard reader becomes
> essential and they have to spend some money they might 
> realise what all the
> fuss is about and get a bit more security conscious.
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rogan Dawes" <discard () dawes za net>
> To: "Lyal Collins" <lyal.collins () key2it com au>
> Cc: "'Florian Weimer'" <fw () deneb enyo de>; "'Rafael San Miguel'"
> <smcsoc () yahoo es>; <webappsec () securityfocus com>; 
> <Enrique.Diez () dvc es>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Proposal to anti-phishing
>
>
> > Old PC's can use serial or parallel readers, more recent 
> PC's can use
> > USB readers. Still NEWER machines can use integrated card readers.
> > Where's the downside?