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by jamie_ca 3919 days ago
Oh goodie, now there's a canonical description of how to make a US gov't website for all the phishers out there...
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The design level is the wrong level to solve the fishing problem. Any site can be immitated, and 100 differently-looking sites can be immitated with almost the same ease as 100 same-looking ones...

For one, you don't even have to create anything -- you just download the original assets, and merely inject some JS or change a form destination in your version.

So mirrorring (wget -mkp http://foo.bar) designs is not that more difficult...