[Cosmo-dev] Study on site-authentication images

Lisa Dusseault ldusseault at commerce.net
Mon Feb 5 11:03:21 PST 2007


I mentioned to a couple people some upcoming results from my  
CommerceNet colleague Rachna Dhamija on the effectiveness (or lack  
thereof) of site-authentication image approaches.  The study is now  
public:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/technology/05secure.html?ref=business

These are of course frustrating results from the point of view of Web  
sites trying to protect customers with unilateral server/site upgrades.

Lisa


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