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Originally posted by pills_PMD@Feb 8 2005, 09:49 AM
i thought everyone spoke and wrote english now... other languages should be banned! lol
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The newly discovered exploit takes advantage of the fact that characters that look alike can have two separate codes in Unicode and thus appear to the computer as different. For example, Unicode for "a" is 97 under the Latin alphabet, but 1072 in Cyrillic.
Subbing one for the other can allow a scammer to register a domain name that looks to the human as "paypal.com," tricking users into giving passwords and other sensitive information at what looks like a legitimate site.
Originally posted by ktanaka@Feb 8 2005, 05:29 PM
^^^ Thats what I was thinking. All they have to do, is make it so that each different character set when typed is displayed with a different color so you know that if the "a" in paypal is red, that it is NOT the same as paypal (all letters in black). I win. Problem solved.
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Originally posted by 92b16vx@Feb 10 2005, 07:52 AM
Probably old news....
http://www.astalavista.com/?section=news&c...ils&newsid=1106
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These bugs are all fixed in Firefox 1.0 and newer, and Thunderbird 0.9 and newer.