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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Kemming is 100 level preparedness.

They need to up their game to cover internationalized homograph vulnerabilities, using roughly similar characters from different international alphabets to create totally different domain names:

example.com
exаmple.com

They look identical but are entirely different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well that's just rude

[–] BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I do have a tendency to check where the link leads before clicking on it, so the difference between those two is quite obvious to me: http://example.com/ vs http://xn--exmple-4nf.com/, but a lot of people probably do not do that.

I would definitely not click on the second one.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They look identical but are entirely different.

They "a"s don't look identical at all with a good font like Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, which also very clearly differentiates between

  • 0 and O
  • I and l

etc..