Welcome Washington Post, USA Today readers
posted by Allison on October 5th, 2006 in PhishTank, Community, PhishTank in the news
It’s a good day for PhishTank. Reporters Brian Krebs from The Washington Post and Nick Jesdanun from the Associated Press both wrote well-informed articles encouraging people to fill ‘er up. In addition to running as a lead story in USA Today, Nick’s piece was picked up by Forbes.com, BusinessWeek Online, San Jose Mercury News, Sydney Morning Herald, Boston Herald , ABC News, Houston Chronicle, Slashdot and many others.
Can’t forget Narasu Rebbapragada from PC World, Frank Washkuck from SC Magazine and Dennis Fisher from SearchSecurity (Tech Target), who also wrote great articles.
If you’re here at PhishTank because you read about the site in any of the above outlets, welcome. 
Leave a response below, or send a trackback from your own site.
Christopher
I myself joined after reading the WP article (been waiting for a collaborative site like this to come along!) However, I’m disappointed by the amount of false positives I’ve seen submitted - sites like ebay.co.uk (obviously legit, I use it all the time!) and tye Yahoo! Mail front page… subdomains on perfectly legitimate URLs which, possibly (maybe, I’m just theorising) because the person can’t understand how a subdomain works in relation to its parent domain…
I’ve already gone through at least forty or fifty sites and marked up the false positives, incorrect URLs… I hope that this ratio is going to improve. I also hope to see at some point a “Warn User” feature so that people who submit needless false positives can be flagged on the system, and maybe eventually banned if they continue, as it’s a waste of everyone’s time.
Aside from that, the site has real promise, and hell - it’s only a couple of days old since its public opening! I look forward to becoming part of a great community that can actually do something positive towards curbing the sheer amount of crap attempting to take your personal data off you without you realising. Nice one guys.
— posted by Christopher on October 6th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Chris
Nice website, and a hell of an idea! Like your welcome message too - Thanks go to USA Today where I
saw the article/write-up; I get more spam and phish then you would believe! Nice to know I can
‘deposit’ them here for analysis…..Thanks folks!
— posted by Chris on October 6th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
John
Christopher, and others, we’re five days in, and we do see some areas we can improve.
I’ve called many of them out in this morning’s blog post:
http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/06/how-phishtank-works-what-is-coming-next/
What you see as false positives are often mis-parsing of email submissions. We’re moving quickly to correct these mistakes. Then we’ll make new ones, and you can tell us about those!
— posted by John on October 6th, 2006 at 9:00 pm