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I wonder if one can create a browser plugin that judges the similarity of a domain to a set of well-known domains and warns the user when the URL they clicked o
by hangonhn 6y ago
I wonder if one can create a browser plugin that judges the similarity of a domain to a set of well-known domains and warns the user when the URL they clicked on has a domain that is very similar but not the same? Maybe use levenshtein distance or some kind of visual similarity measurement? The downside is that it would obviously punish a legit website like googie.com but perhaps one can whitelist it if one explicitly enters the URL?
- gumby 6y agoThis would be a kind of augmented Soundex code that could be useful is many contexts. The problem is your browser or DNS cache would basically have to have a copy of the root zones OR contact a special name resolver that would return...what? in the case of a collision.
- danellis 6y agoMore than the root zone; it would have to have all of the TLD zones, and even deeper in some cases.
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- eli 6y agoI dunno if it'd be worth the effort, either it would miss a ton of stuff, be complaining all the time, or require a massive whitelist.