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Is "phising" a commonly accepted term, or just a mis-spelling of "phishing"?
I've always understood "phishing" is a common security term. However, recently I've started seeing serious articles and people using the word "phising" (without the second h) as if they are serious.
For example, this entire page:
http://ferruh.mavituna.com/ssl-implementation-security-faq-oku/ [link is now dead]
or this SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4365294/is-redirecting-http-to-https-a-bad-idea
It's a misspelling. Even in both links.
phishing (M-W Online)
- a scam by which an e-mail user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly
Might not be the best proof, but only 1.2% of all the Google results are for "phising" versus "phishing". I seriously believe this is human err. Furthermore, this is a relativity newer term, so it makes sense for things like this to happen.
Another example from Google Ngram Viewer:
So we can infer that "phising" was actually a word in the past, and "phishing" was only invented in 1980. However I'm not sure if this chart is reliable or not.
