~/.hosts patch

[John Birrell]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:31:36AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> Wouldn't this enable the same kind of phishing attacks there are under 
> windows? As far as I remember there are attacks where the hosts file 
> (don't remember how its called under windows) is rewriten by a virus/java 
> script/whatever to contain a different IP address for a given hostname? 
> Suppose someone fakes the website of www.foobank.com, then manages to 
> insert www.foobank.com with the wrong IP address into ~/.hosts?

Ugh. Now that is a scary thought.

Please kill this patch ASAP. 

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John Birrell