CFA/Security-Research/Other
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Contents
Current Capabilities
- Automated update - always checks to see if you're running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available (FF)
Upcoming Capabilities
Features by 3rd parties or other browsers
Additional features
- Word of mouth security
- Social networks - 7 of your Facebook friends have purchased from this site
- Personal sources - Your computer-savvy cousin says this site is safe
- Online ratings - This site has 25 unresolved complaints according to BBB, and a reseller rating of 6.2
- Security history
- You've been to this site before
- Nothing has changed since the last time you were at this site
- You're sending a password to a site that you've never visited
- Page Security Scoring - use standard formula to calculate a score to provide consistent and trustworthy security context semantic to users
- Browser Lock Down - remove security decisions from the user as much as possible; determine behavior based on configuration
- Personally Identifiable Information Bar
- Secure Remote Password Protocol
- Watch for credit card numbers going out on the wire