Trusted Location

Full Title or Meme

A Trusted Location is one that will display a well-known tag showing who they are and what they intend.

Context

• As a part of having a Trusted Identity in Cyberspace a series of Framework Profiles have been created to allow digital Entities to give users a statement about the policies that they support.

Problems

• A spoofed URL describes one website that poses as another website. It sometimes applies a mechanism that exploits bugs in web browser technology, allowing a malicious computer attack. During such an attack, a computer user innocently visits a web site and sees a familiar URL in the address bar such as http://www.wikipedia.org but is, in reality, sending information to an entirely different location that would typically be monitored by an information thief.

References

• The wiki page on Cookies provides some alternate solutions.
• The wiki page on Trusted Identifier can be used to bind a URL with a Trusted Location to a real-world Entity.