Security sells quite now, and lots of companies like to cash in by making up fake security threats, and then selling a “solution“. One such company is the “Internet Security Foundation“ which is just a clever marketing name for “Some Lame Company Trying to Sell Free Tools“. When you goto the site (InternetSecurityFoundation.org), they make a big deal and a fake security alert from Sept. 2004 that you can see the text in a textbox, even if Windows renders it as asterisks. Anyone who programs understands this. These people pretend it's some kind of new threat and that terrorists are using it over the Internet to rob bank acounts. What a load of crap!Why do they do this? They want to sell you “SeePassword“ (SeePassword.com), a $20 utility to do the same thing as the free Glow Password Recovery Util (download: Glow.exe (14.5 KB)) -- or similar programs, which have been around for YEARS. The REAL issue lies in each individual program passing around passwords in plaintext. If a password is sitting in a user's memory space, in plain text, then why is it a surprise that it can be seen? Oh wait, it's not a surprise. This company is just using security for marketing. Oh, and interesting info on their domain name registration. Perhaps I shall give them a call.Registrant: KMGI Corp. 119 72 St., 339 New York, New York 10023 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: INTERNETSECURITYFOUNDATION.ORG Created on: 29-Oct-04 Expires on: 29-Oct-05 Last Updated on: 29-Oct-04 Administrative Contact: Corp., KMGI ak@kmgi.com 119 72 St., 339 New York, New York 10023 United States 17032427114 Fax -- 12122024982 Technical Contact: Corp., KMGI ak@kmgi.com 119 72 St., 339 New York, New York 10023 United States 17032427114 Fax -- 12122024982 Domain servers in listed order: NS2.KMGI.BIZ NS3.KMGI.BIZEdit: Fix .com to .org (Although both appeared to be registered by the same thing).
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