Unforgeable dialog.

[Travis H.]

In one environment I worked in, it was important that people know what
kind of data they were looking at.  The way they solved it was to put a
green colored border and label on one kind of data, and a red border and
different label on another kind of data.  This reduces usable screen area
a bit, but it seemed to work.  Of course this assumes that the phony emails
and web pages can only control the contents of the window, not the border
area or framing, but that's an obvious requirement to any such system.

Similarly, at home I have a number of systems on a KVM, and I set the
background color to be different on each, so that I don't get confused
regarding which one I'm on.

I have no idea what firebox or XUL are.  Am I supposed to?

What changed when going from ASCII text to HTML in emails that
makes phishing so much more of a problem?
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