In response to the article below.
Heh, is RSS the answer to preventing phishing attacks? I wonder if RSS couldn't be hacked or spoofed or somehow corrupted? What if a stream of rss could be interrupted, and new html text and links substituted for the original stream of data. This would suffice for a man-in-the-middle rss stream attack. Or what if one of those xml orange tags couldn't be modified in some way to point users to some other site. If hackers can figure out how to spoof IP, they can probably find a way to spoof RSS. Disclaimer: I haven't studied the RSS protocol, so I don't really know, but, I have been a tech-type for far too long to know that just about anything is possible. I will need to look into this more.
Will phishing spoofees like eBay and banks get hip to RSS for the end run? by ZDNet's David Berlind -- In preparation for an audiocast interview that I'll be doing with the Anti-Phishing Working Group's chairman David Jevans, we discussed one of the oft-ignored downsides to phishing and how RSS could be the solution. Here's the gist. Because of how bad phishing has gotten, users won't open any e-mail that portends to come from one of the financial institutions or e-commerce sites with which they do business. If, for example, one of the most common spoofees -- eBay -- had to send an urgent correspondence regarding a potential security problem to buyers or sellers that use its site, almost everyone of them would suspect they're being phished and would delete the e-mail without ever opening it. Phishing has killed e-mail as an effective ...
