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Weaponised Fonts (gardinerbryant.com)
submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/privacy@programming.dev
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Arguably more security than privacy, but this made me think. I havent considered the use of ambiguous fonts in phishing before. Worth reading.

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[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

In addition, if you attempt to visit a site that is a homograph of one already in your browser history the browser should show a warning, highlight the similarity and force you to confirm you want to proceed.