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IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

Posted Feb 22, 2005 0:29 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine) by ballombe
Parent article: New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

Not quite. IDN makes matters MUCH worse. Buying a domain name that looks just like a well know one is easy, spoofing DNS effectively is much more difficult.


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IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

Posted Feb 22, 2005 16:42 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Buying a domain name that looks just like a well know one is easy even
without IDN. Just use a bit of social engineering when choosing your
domain name and introducing it to the user.

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