Comments on: Welcome Washington Post, USA Today readers http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/05/welcome-washington-post-usa-today-readers/ A blog about and from PhishTank, a collaborative clearinghouse for data about phishing. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: John http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/05/welcome-washington-post-usa-today-readers/#comment-47 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:00:01 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/05/welcome-washington-post-usa-today-readers/#comment-47 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! ;-) 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! ;-)

]]> by: Chris http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/05/welcome-washington-post-usa-today-readers/#comment-45 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:49:27 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/05/welcome-washington-post-usa-today-readers/#comment-45 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! 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!

]]> by: Christopher http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/05/welcome-washington-post-usa-today-readers/#comment-44 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:19:33 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/10/05/welcome-washington-post-usa-today-readers/#comment-44 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. :) 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. :)

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