Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

> Oh, and 'i' and 'l' need to be banned as well, because a san-serif uppercase I
> looks a lot like a san-serif lowercase l. (In fact, in the font I'm currently using,
> the two are pixel-identical).
>
> I don't see anybody calling for the banning of 'i' and 'l' in domain names due to that.

The very first phishing message I ever saw was from paypa1.com.


                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb