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Firefox extension!

I'd pay for it! LOL

This is actually a really sensible idea, instead of getting the phishing warning stuff in firefox when you visit a site, say it sends in about 10,000 fake card details silently behind the scenes, now if the number of respondents (idiot clickers) in other browsers is less than 1/10000*the number of respondents in firefox, then the majority of the data in their collection system is going to be bogus. Therefore they'll eventually just give up on that method of phishing.

This is similar to but most likely more effective than the LAD Vampire thing which exceeds the bandwidth of phishing sites.

The idea reminds me of that WW2 comic about poisoning the water supply of ze germans with thallium. phish poisoning eh, could it catch on?

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