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Submission + - The Grandma-Proof OS

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mu22le writes: "Last week at linux.conf.au Andrew Tannenbaum presented his vision of an operating system that never crashes and introduced his new metric: LFs, Lifetime Failures, to describe the number of times software has crashed in a user's lifetime. More details can be found in this interview."
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Submission + - MS Research: EV SSL Certs Don't Prevent Phishing

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An anonymous reader writes: The newly introduced Extended Validation SSL Certificates do not help users to detect phishing attacks, according to a study by Stanford University and Microsoft Research [PDF]. The study illustrates that the new Internet Explorer 7 interface, which features a green address bar to indicate EV certs, is easy for phishers to spoof. Training users does not help- those who read the IE7 documentation are more likely to classify real and phishing sites as legitimate. The authors will present their results at the Usable Security 2007 conference.

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