Fri, Nov 25 2005 5:54 Don

The color of trust

Mozilla, Microsoft and Opera developers met last week in Toronto to decide on a standard method of conveying website trustworthiness to web surfers.

The upcoming Internet Explorer 7 will use coloring of the address bar to offer feedback to users - It will display red if the site is a known phishing site, or green if the site is secure. The security certificates will also be displayed inline, for verification at a glance. Opera has also included phishing deterrents in recent versions, in the form of a toolbar.

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