- From: John Burger <john@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:48:38 -0500
- To: www-international@w3.org, Unicode Mailing List <unicode@unicode.org>
Frank Yung-Fong Tang wrote: > Any one have any comment about > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279099 Here's a popular press description of the problem http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/02/08/spoof/index.php which points to a test for it at Secunia.com. (They registered paypal.com spelled with a Cyrillic "a".) Ironically, IE doesn't fall for the spoof, because it apparently doesn't handle IDNs. Of course, from a user interface perspective, browsers need to do something about this, but I find it annoying that it's described as a "security flaw". My browser doesn't warn me about g00g1e.com yet, either. - John D. Burger MITRE
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