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I don't see how this is any more informative to your average layman?

• thexa4 7y ago
  It means that information to the left is always the important part. Right now you have to find the '/', evaluate the components leftwards, return to the '/' and evaluate components rightwards. Given that finding the '/' is not always trivial (broken screen example in the article) and doing this requires you to think a lot of people won't do it.
• Buge 7y ago
  Look at these 2: https://ee.co.uk.billing-update-jan02.info https://ee.co.uk/billing-update-jan02.info There's just a single character difference. The layperson will think they mean the same thing. Now look at these 2: https://info.billing-update-jan02.uk.co.ee https://uk.co.ee/billing-update-jan02.info There's a big difference there. People can easily see something is abnormal.
  • thexa4 7y ago
    The attacker wouldn't use that one in that case though. https://uk.co.ee/billing-update-jan02.info https://uk.co.ee-billing-update-jan02/info Would be more likely. Perhaps an animation showing both would help.
    • Buge 7y ago
      You're right, the benefit isn't really about character differences. In both cases users need to be taught that '-' isn't a divider and '.' is a divider. The benefit is that it would be easier to teach people to start on the left then search right than it is to teach people to start at the leftmost / (but not the ones in the scheme) then search left.