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Re: [Full-disclosure] Are consumers being misled by "phishing"?



On 6/29/06, security curmudgeon <jericho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: There are a million books on phishing in borders book store, if the
: phishing phrase hadn't been coined, a lot of people wouldn't be
: millionaires right now.
:
: 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

And i'm sure there are other references going back to the early 90's if
someone wants to do some digging.

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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.

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