Comment 513 for bug 269656

To understand a bit more about the anti phishing in firefox you should read about the documentation,
http://code.google.com/p/google-safe-browsing/wiki/Protocolv2Spec , or other pages about the code.

Now know that the service is not perfect, let me explain, what i mean for the part i understand what it does:

Firefox anti service is turned on , the website you visit is compared with a blacklist that resides somewhere on google or partners servers, it has been known to go wrong,

see : http://www.finjan.com/Pressrelease.aspx?PressLan=1230&id=1261&lan=3

Or blocks sites that are no treat at all

see : http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/21/1827209&from=rss

Yes its a powerfull censure tool , its also a way to make money, surf behavior statistics and phishing sites,
do we have any influence on the service and what is censured?

There seems to be an ( dead? ) project for open source anti phishing services :

http://opdb.berlios.de/ and http://www.antiphishing.org/events/2006_researchSummit.html

There might be more, but i could not find them. Are they safe? I would trust google more at the moment.
The service is running on their servers, so need not to be open source, the information sent comes from ours, the sending part of code also runs on ours, as you can study in the code above.
Maybe some more views on the code is wise?

I think its good to know, the ups and downs, since the discussion is coming to its conclusion, the more we understand of what we are choosing the better it is to explain the choice.

Hope to be of service,

friendly greetings from the netherland.