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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 16:42 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine) by clugstj
Parent article: New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

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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