On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 04:33:43 -0500 (EST) shogunx <shogunx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Dean Anderson wrote: > > > People need to rely on their common sense. This isn't a technical > > problem. It is a social engineering problem. Your best bet is to read > > Kevin Mitnick's book "The Art of Deception". Of course, there will be > > instances were banks will send their customers emails. But you should > > treat those emails with the same degree of caution that you treat other > > communications. People are going to buy things over the net, and they'll > > also get emails with links in them. Not all of those emails are going to > > be genuine. Not all will be fake, either. > > They could probably read the packet headers. > Two reasons not to or they won't be : (a) they could be faked (b) how many mums and dads, grandmas and grand, joe six packs etc do you know who both know how to run a protocol analyser, and understand what it is saying ? Getting them to understand and use PKI will be the first challenge before that one. I'd also recommend Bruce Schneier's "Secrets and Lies, Digital Security in a Networked Word" and his "Beyond Fear, Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World " books. Regards, Mark.