full-disclosure - Are consumers being misled by "phishing"?

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Date: Tue Jul  4 07:29:09 2006
From: dveditz at cruzio.com (Daniel Veditz)
Subject: Are consumers being misled by "phishing"?

n3td3v wrote:
>> : They brought in "phishing" in 2003. The actual act of phishing had been
>> : going on for years before the phrase was coined. Since the beginning of
>>
>> The term was coined long before 2003.
>>
>> March 3, 1996:
>> http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/LOLIE/1lolie.txt
>>
>> May 8, 1999:
>> http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/UHA/uha1-7.txt
> 
> I know, although it was "commercially" coined and used to make money
> from 2003 by Websense.com and all the others, as well as the book
> authors. Thats what I was talking about, sorry for the
> misunderstanding. I was always aware the term had been phloating
> around the underground before that.

C|Net isn't the underground, nor is the NCSA who made the announcement
they reported (June 27, 1997):
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-200992.html