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Bob Unitt 119/05/2023 10:00:47
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Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 18/05/2023 13:23:03:
Posted by Bob Unitt 1 on 18/05/2023 10:11:53:

Why would you trust an online website purporting to check other websites any more than you would trust any other online website ? Does not compute...

Yes indeed, and "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" has always been a problem. (Who watches the watchmen?)

Faulty logic as a reason for not bothering with deeper checking though. Even though security is never perfect, it's still prudent to do ones best.

As far as I know, no-one has successfully faked a website security check website - yet. Not impossible, but a tricky challenge to pull-off for any length of time.

I wasn't suggesting you shouldn't do such checks, just the general "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" of the situation. I do such checks myself, and have certain sites and tools I trust, but my faith in them isn't absolute.

You can't be sure that a site isn't compromised in some way, as the definition of a successful compromise is that you can't detect that it's happened.

Even the big-boys can be infected - some years ago a colleague of mine went to a major IBM developer's conference in California, returning with a conference-provided CD of tools and information. On his return he found an urgent email from IBM - "DON'T OPEN THAT CD, IT'S GOT VIRUS !".

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