> case 1:
>http://www.paypal.com/dummy_stuff@www.attacker.com> this goes to the www.paypal.com site, then a script in the site redirects
> the reader to www.attacker.com. For this to work, it is assumed that
> www.paypal.com has that script, and that it doesn't check for phishing
> redirection URLs.
>
Nope - that doesn't go near www.paypal.com.
That would in theory, go to www.attacker.com and present
www.paypal.com/dummy_stuff as a username.
Having that said, I believe that most modern-day browsers either prevent (
MSIE ), or alert ( Firefox ) such behavour. I'm unsure about the behavour of
any other browser, such as konqueror, or lynx.
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