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SpoofStick 1.0 is here
[Update June 04: If you came directly to this page from Brian’s Buzz, Brian Livingston’s newsletter, welcome! Please see my quick reply to Brian’s comments here. SpoofStick now has its own category where you can see all the latest news and coverage. If you feel like browsing my other articles, here’s the front page.]
The general release version (1.0) of SpoofStick is now available for download for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. The 1.0 version includes a standardized UI across both platforms and a much smaller installer for the IE version.
Many thanks to the over three thousand of you who tried out the beta versions, to the dozens that gave useful feedback, and to the handful of bottom-phishers that harvested the "spoofstick" email address and clogged up my mailbox with pr0n and important information about my eBay account. This last category of people, in particular, reminds me of why we do this.
Thanks also to the bloggers and journalists – amateur and professional – who helped spread the world. I'm especially gratified to see that some of them have screenshots of SpoofStick running on their browsers. It's always good to see proof that your software actually installs.
Here’s some of what the web had to say:
Jon Udell - InfoWorld (screenshot, great write-up and first external mention of SpoofStick!)
Chris Lindquist - CIO.com(nice article, and the title makes SpoofStick sound downright superheroic)
Adam Gaffin - NetworkWorldFusion
Mark Ayzenshtat - Marked for Dearth (also did the programming)
Asa Dotzler - Adot's Notblog* (Asa drives big traffic)
Under The Sun (first Bible quote associated with SpoofStick)
Tara Calishan - ResearchBuzz (helped debug the press release)
Robin Bloor - Bloor Research (SpoofStick made him switch to Firefox from IE)
Nick Codignotto - Primordial Ooze (screenshot)
Mozdev extension room
Mozilla News
Chris Walken - talkaboutshareware.com (I'm pretending it's Christopher Walken)
inetinfo (with phish stick joke!)
John Ludwig - a little ludwig goes a long way
ExecTechNews
beaglebot - linkfilter.net
kayodeok
[expletive deleted]happens
Of course, nothing can top the comment from Carol Baraoudi that I wrote about on May 3rd.
Download SpoofStick 1.0 for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox here.
May 10, 2004 | Permalink
Comments
Well, not everyone agrees that SpoofStick is the greatest thingsince sliced bread. Brian Livingston ( www.BriansBuzz.com ) calls it "An example of what doesn't work."
Posted by: Jack Teems | Jun 4, 2004 7:10:39 PM
Thanks for pointing out the criticism. I can't find the exact quote on the web, but I just subscribed to Brian's newsletter and sent him a note asking for his feedback directly. If Brian has any suggestion that could make SpoofStick more useful, we'd be happy to hear them.
Posted by: Phil Libin | Jun 4, 2004 7:27:07 PM
Ok, I just subscribed to Brian's newsletter and received the last issue. He seems to fault SpoofStick for not catching spyware which may be lurking in the background waiting to record your credit card numbers, etc. While I agree that spyware is a nasty problem (see my ISLAND post), it's not the problem that SpoofStick was meant to address. SpoofStick simply makes it easier for the user to figure out where they are on the web - cutting through intentionally or unintentionally confusing or mislabeled URLs. Misleading URLs - not spyware - are the simple and crude methods used by most of the "phishing" scams going around today. SpoofStick, anti-virus software, spyware detectors and firewalls are all quite complementary.
Posted by: Phil Libin | Jun 4, 2004 8:03:14 PM
Some of us out here still use win. 98 on our PCs. You have cut us out as Microsoft has cut our updates. This is wrong. I am running Spoofstick on my XP desktop and love it ,but my laptop is an older one and too expensive to up grade to XP and yet it works great. Every one seems to have forgotten and abandoned Win 98. Not fair.
Posted by: Jacqueline Folwell | Apr 27, 2005 4:49:51 PM
Something is wrong with the site or some one dose not want it to work. each time I trie to download spoofstick I get a page not avavabile error. Hope they can fix the problem. Eddie
Posted by: Charles E. Crisp | Feb 4, 2006 12:11:23 AM
Well, Charles E. Crisp is right in his professional analysis of spoofstick. I have tried for the last 3 days to download it and I get the same results.......nada.
Posted by: Hal Smith | Feb 4, 2006 5:45:30 PM
Hello it Is possible that the extension that adapt it to put translations. An answer would thank you.
Posted by: srxo1978 | May 13, 2006 3:20:05 PM
