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egwynn
on May 1, 2019
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Nearly all 2020 presidential candidates aren’t usi...
That's a cool idea and will normally work, but won't prevent homograph attacks entirely. Identities can still be spoofed if they can be constructed entirely from glyphs in the intersection of two unicode blocks. E.g. `ΝΙΚΕ.ϹΟΜ` and `NIKE.COM`.
nine_k
on May 1, 2019
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Lowercasing them would let the user tell the lowercase L from uppercase i.
But I agree, some things may need to be special-cased.
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