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For all the ladies who'd fail this Satan's test (europe.pub)
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[–] 23 points 2 days 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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day 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..

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