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/And/ another thing...

/And/ another thing...

Posted Feb 22, 2005 17:20 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine) by fjf33
Parent article: New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

There is no collision between punycode and the regular ANSI I hope.

Punycode is certainly ugly, but by definition it's in ASCII---see bk's example for pàypal.com, above.

So, when everyone's used to seeing funky URLs in Unicode, all you need do is register the domain `ax--qrmasdflkh-v9.com', and no one will give it a second glance.


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