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    Richard Morley

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  1. Comment - Opera Calls for Consortium on IDN Fix

    (Feb 22, 2005 - 3:51 PM)

    In Paul Hoffman's blog, linked to in this story, he suggested that that browsers could perhaps put an icon to the left of the URL indicating it is an IDN address. The problem is that the people most vulnerable to phishing schemes won't have a clue what this even means. You and I likely know how to avoid falling for phishing attacks, but what about the so-called "newbies"? Even if the browser showed an in-your-face indication that the current site has an IDN domain name, will these users even know what that means? Or will they just go straight for the close button like they do with MSIE's activeX security warning?

    It's only a slight consolation that most of these "newbies" are still using MSIE, which is currently invulnerable to this potential phishing scheme.