While reading Bruce Schneier’s blog, and a lot of discussion of phishing, I was pointed to Spoofstick. Spoofstick is an extension for Firefox AND IE that shows you in a toolbar what the REAL site you are on is called. This is necessary because of a unicode problem that allows one to use unicode letters that LOOK like normal letters but really are not. Hence paypal.com may not be really paypal.com. However, Spoofstick provides some proof against this. Everyone should install it.
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Okay, got it.
I’ve put a slightly modified version of this extension online at my standard place which halves the image button size and drastically cuts down the font sizes for the text, so as to make Spoofstick fit nicer on my browser — I have its text in light grey in the Toolbar now, just left of the upgrade button and spinning progress meter. Works well there. 🙂
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Chris pointed out Spoofstick this afternoon on his blog (an anti-spoofing extension), so I installed it for Firefox, but it was too big for my tastes (font wise), didn’t fit my theme and such. So I’ve put a modified version online at my usual place w…