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I 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 i

I 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 ago
Trusting one's eyes is doomed to failure anyway. That's what PGP is for.
Avamander 7y ago
That'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 ago
  good luck getting your mom to implement that.
  - Avamander 7y ago
    It'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 ago
    my mom is using a linux CLI mail client?