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<blockquote data-quote="Wladimir Palant" data-source="post: 1039580" data-attributes="member: 89522"><p><em>Note</em>: I am the author of this article.</p><p></p><p>All of these issues are solvable and have in fact been solved long ago (as I said: phishing protection in Firefox 2.0). Yes, one needs quite a bit of data. But I bet that you don’t even notice your browser downloading it. It doesn’t need to happen every second, the lists aren’t even being updated that often. And one can implement incremental updates to cut down download size.</p><p></p><p>Also you don’t “search … against a massive list,” that’s what hash tables are for – or other data structures that can process such lists efficiently.</p><p></p><p>Heuristics and reputation checks usually don’t result in website blocks immediately, that would lead to too many false positives. There is still someone checking these and adding websites to the overall list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wladimir Palant, post: 1039580, member: 89522"] [I]Note[/I]: I am the author of this article. All of these issues are solvable and have in fact been solved long ago (as I said: phishing protection in Firefox 2.0). Yes, one needs quite a bit of data. But I bet that you don’t even notice your browser downloading it. It doesn’t need to happen every second, the lists aren’t even being updated that often. And one can implement incremental updates to cut down download size. Also you don’t “search … against a massive list,” that’s what hash tables are for – or other data structures that can process such lists efficiently. Heuristics and reputation checks usually don’t result in website blocks immediately, that would lead to too many false positives. There is still someone checking these and adding websites to the overall list. [/QUOTE]
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