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Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:09:25 -0800

My $0.02 on this issue is if the message is rich text I hover over the link
and see where it actually sends me.
idn has made this unsafe
Techniques to deal with this sort of spoofing already exist: see
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html
for one quite effective approach.

and grandma is gonna use this?  with internet exploder or safari?

let's try to remember that there are normal human beings on the net
these years (bummer that, eh?), and this list is kind of about serving
them.

randy


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