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Current Capabilities

• Automated update - always checks to see if you're running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available (FF)

Upcoming Capabilities

Features by 3rd parties or other browsers

Additional features

• Word of mouth security
  • Social networks - 7 of your Facebook friends have purchased from this site
  • Personal sources - Your computer-savvy cousin says this site is safe
  • Online ratings - This site has 25 unresolved complaints according to BBB, and a reseller rating of 6.2
• Security history
  • You've been to this site before
  • Nothing has changed since the last time you were at this site
  • You're sending a password to a site that you've never visited
• Page Security Scoring - use standard formula to calculate a score to provide consistent and trustworthy security context semantic to users
• Browser Lock Down - remove security decisions from the user as much as possible; determine behavior based on configuration

• Personally Identifiable Information Bar
• Secure Remote Password Protocol
• Watch for credit card numbers going out on the wire

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