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You mean like speaking any other language besides english?
by throwaway2048 7y ago
You mean like speaking any other language besides english?
- danielscrubs 7y agoI think he is thinking about that some letters look identical but are encoded differently. So someone will not be able to look at an email address and say: oh it’s from such and such.
- Arkanosis 7y agoTrusting one's eyes is doomed to failure anyway. That's what PGP is for.
- Avamander 7y agoThat's a side-effect of UTF-8, yes, but my primary concern was indeed non-English e-mail addresses, people should have the right to use their own names. You have GPG for identity validation though.
- jgalt212 7y agogood luck getting your mom to implement that.
- Avamander 7y agoIt's not like your mom without UTF-8 and without GPG is protected against phishing either. UTF-8 lookalikes are only a teeny-tiny fraction of any phishing. It's stupid anyways to rely on never having UTF-8 because most clients do it to the extent of making lookalikes possible, but not so that it's usable for internationalized e-mails. If anything, e-mail clients should have built-in warning against such attacks as well as you using proper methods of determining who you're e-mailing.
- throwaway2048 7y agomy mom is using a linux CLI mail client?