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Vanity Onion addresses are a bad idea. They teach users to ignore part of the address instead of treating the whole address like an IP address. The GNU Name Sy
by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Vanity Onion addresses are a bad idea. They teach users to ignore part of the address instead of treating the whole address like an IP address.
The GNU Name System gets this sort of thing correct though.
- indolering 10y ago> Vanity Onion addresses are a bad idea. They teach users to ignore part of the address instead of treating the whole address like an IP address. This assumes that users aren't ignoring the address anyway. There is a near 100% success rate in tricking users into visiting fake URLs in laboratory conditions. While trying to explain my research to a tenured professor, she literally typed each domain I was spelling out into Firefox's search box instead of punching it in manually.