{"id":148,"date":"2007-03-05T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2007-03-05T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T12:14:40","slug":"ie7-phishing-site-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/148-ie7-phishing-site-confusion.html","title":{"rendered":"IE7 phishing site confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing for a conference, I saved the agenda from a web page to a file, so that I could read it on the train. I used the IE &#8220;web archive&#8221; feature, which saves a page to a single file with the extension .mht. When I re-opened the page later, I was suprised to see the following warning:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Local file identified as phishing site\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/localphishing.gif\"> <\/p>\n<p>Something wrong here I reckon. Apparently my own hard drive is a phishing site. <\/p>\n<p>I suppose IE7 has a point. After all, I&#8217;ve copied the page from one place to another, and although it looks like a page on the web, it isn&#8217;t. Then again, it isn&#8217;t criminal either. I&#8217;m using a feature of IE exactly as designed.<\/p>\n<p>Amusing; but the difficulty I have with these kinds of false alarms is that they undermine the real ones. How is the non-technical user to know which warnings they can safely ignore? The danger is that they end up taking none of them seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:31acc7e4-c8a9-45b6-811b-685fda07c23f\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/phishing\" rel=\"tag\">phishing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/security\" rel=\"tag\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ie7\" rel=\"tag\">ie7<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing for a conference, I saved the agenda from a web page to a file, so that I could read it on the train. I used the IE &#8220;web archive&#8221; feature, which saves a page to a single file with the extension .mht. When I re-opened the page later, I was suprised to see the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/148-ie7-phishing-site-confusion.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IE7 phishing site confusion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,75,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-security","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}