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It could also easily be used for phishing or IP logging purposes. Poor attempt though, almost everyone is now aware of unicode in domain names, and anyone techi
by fairytale 5y ago
It could also easily be used for phishing or IP logging purposes. Poor attempt though, almost everyone is now aware of unicode in domain names, and anyone techie enough would be able to spot it.
- sircastor 5y agoI don’t agree. I think almost every _technical_ user is aware of this practice, but I don’t think generally it’s understood. That said, I think it’s mostly ineffective because later versions of chrome are pretty good about identifying these doppelgänger domains and warning people away from them.
- harish_yadav 5y agoYet, I feel not everyone is technically literate enough. This could very be a risk. I was using Chrome when I found this out, I wasn't given any such warning. It'd be good with chrome can offer some discouragement to these.
- dsmmcken 5y agoI could see that easily being missed, it's not displayed as punycode in the firefox url bar.
- fairytale 5y agoOne can simply set network.IDN_show_punycode to true in their about:config