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Ethical yet realistic evaluation of usable security mechanisms is both critical and challenging. We study a particular and important case: the security achieved by different defenses against phishing, where users play a key role in detecting the attacks. We argue that proper evaluation of such anti-phishing defenses, requires users to act `naturally??, similarly to their real-life behavior, without...