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DATE | 2016-10-10 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] phishtank
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From hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Mon Oct 10 21:58:48 2016 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from www.mrbrklyn.com (www.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C55A163EA8; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:58:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: hangout-at-www.mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: hangout-at-www.mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92DE2163E9F; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:49:11 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: Ruben Safir Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:49:11 -0400 Resent-Message-ID: <20161011014911.GB21088-at-www.mrbrklyn.com> Resent-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com X-Original-To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C42163E9C for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:36:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.0.62] (www.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A1151762B; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:36:38 -0400 (EDT) To: Ruben Safir , mbenedetto-at-amnh.org References: <20161011011646.GA20647-at-www.mrbrklyn.com> From: Ruben Safir Message-ID: <15b87b1a-65e1-5ac1-9e6b-027d278eae8e-at-panix.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:36:37 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161011011646.GA20647-at-www.mrbrklyn.com> X-UID: 30636 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:58:36 -0400 Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] phishtank X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: NYLXS Discussions List List-Id: NYLXS Discussions List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Sender: "hangout"
On 10/10/2016 09:16 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > Hello > =
> Let me first thank you for taking the time to talk to me this evening. > I do have a comment, however. phishtank is NOT a dependable source of > information for blocking access. They are not SORBS. They are owned > by a private company, openDNS, which is NOT OPEN (I know because we > have been leaders int he free software moment for decades), and which is > careless about who they step on. They are a profit center for Cisco. > =
> The pages they are citing as a problem, and there seems to be a single > page, is not an example of phishing under ANY circumstances. It is just > part of the mirror from an article taken years ago, May 30th of 2005 as > a matter of fact. the Times protects its sites with logins and they > were captured and all the buttons point back to the Times. > =
> This kind of amature use of a tool is reckless on their part and > on the part Cisco (who owns opendns). You should report their > negligence and stop filtering on them. > =
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> Ruben Safir > =
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Then, similar to our advanced malware and breach protection, our predictive intelligence can discover Internet infrastructure used to host phishing sites=97before your employees ever receive the phishing email.
WTF does this mean? That anyone with a linux box is a suspected phisher and spammer?
These people are idiots.
Ruben
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