Free Website Safety & Security Check
https://www.ssltrust.com.au/ssl-tools/website-security-check

How to check if a website is legit

Study the address bar and URL.
Investigate the SSL certificate.
Check the website for poor grammar or spelling.
Verify the domain.
Check the contact page.
Look up and review the company’s social media presence.
Check for the website’s privacy policy How to check if a website is legit

How to check if a website is legit
https://www.chase.com/personal/credit-cards/education/basics/how-to-check-if-a-website-is-legit

It would be great if the federal government did have have a website for checking the validity of links.

There are a few tools around but it’s very fragmented imo.

It’s the vibe man, it’s the mabo.

Tau.Neutrino said:

It would be great if the federal government did have have a website for checking the validity of links.

There are a few tools around but it’s very fragmented imo.

Yes the internet is a minefield even for the savvy

You drive a taxi long enough you get to tell these things.

Peak Warming Man said:

You drive a taxi long enough you get to tell these things.

:)

A website validator would have a list of:

Federal government websites,
State government websites
Banks, creditors and financial institutions
Corporate websites
Business and retail websites
Science websites
Sport institutions
Overseas government websites

And so on

People could copy and compare to validate links

Something like that

Tau.Neutrino said:

A website validator would have a list of:

Federal government websites,
State government websites
Banks, creditors and financial institutions
Corporate websites
Business and retail websites
Science websites
Sport institutions
Overseas government websites

And so on

People could copy and compare to validate links

Something like that

It would make the online IT sector a bit more secure especially If it was a federal website doing the validating, scamming websites could be picked up instantly if they are not on the list.
And it would include:
Domain name checking
Certificate checking
Other security checks would be done etc

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

A website validator would have a list of:

Federal government websites,
State government websites
Banks, creditors and financial institutions
Corporate websites
Business and retail websites
Science websites
Sport institutions
Overseas government websites

And so on

People could copy and compare to validate links

Something like that

It would make the online IT sector a bit more secure especially If it was a federal website doing the validating, scamming websites could be picked up instantly if they are not on the list.
And it would include:
Domain name checking
Certificate checking
Other security checks would be done etc

Credit cards could have a mini screen to show only status information .

Some sort of passive or very low power screen.

JudgeMental said:

Cool stats
Statistics are important
Visits are important
Reliable information is important

JudgeMental said:

Some others
Sites no longer visited
Sites no longer updated
Sites no longer found
Sites by country

Make it a ubiquitous copy and compare keyboard shortcut, click in the website address field copy and compare the url with the default website link validator as set in the web browser.

Something like that, there’s probably many other ways

Keyboard shortcuts like

Copy
Copy and paste
Copy and cut
Copy and compare (new one)

Copy and compare the website in the web browser

Word processing programs could feature a copy and compare keyboard shortcut too, to look for plagiarism in the open document in their default search engine.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

A website validator would have a list of:

Federal government websites,
State government websites
Banks, creditors and financial institutions
Corporate websites
Business and retail websites
Science websites
Sport institutions
Overseas government websites

And so on

People could copy and compare to validate links

Something like that

It would make the online IT sector a bit more secure especially If it was a federal website doing the validating, scamming websites could be picked up instantly if they are not on the list.
And it would include:
Domain name checking
Certificate checking
Other security checks would be done etc

A lot of these lists already exist.

So it’s a matter of bringing things together in one spot.

Allowing the public to compare addresses with the trusted list to look for scamming. I’m sure more things could be done here.

To Sum up.

Copy and compare a url against a trusted list.
Anything not in the list treated as suspicious.
Coding is simple.

Drilling holes in credit cards or debit cards is not a good idea.

It would violate terms of agreement.

It could be and probably is against the law.

It could be viewed as hacking.

You could end up in court and fined.

When I visit some military installation I always write MS13 as the company I work for