On 14 Feb 2005, at 13:18, fuzzbucket wrote:
>
> I checked out this vuln myself and thought you'd have to be on crack to
> fall for it, but then I saw screen grabs from other systems that looked
> a lot more convincing. I could still see where the spoof was, but I
> knew
> what to look for. For what it's worth, here's how it looks on my
> system:
>>http://homepage.eircom.net/~wastedyouth/spoof.png
That's because your preferred font doesn't have glyphs for the Unicode
range being used, so the renderer switches to its closest match for the
spoofed character. Where these glyphs *do* exist in the preferred font
(which would be a much more normal case on Windows and OS X at least),
the spoofed character looks indistinguishable from the original. It is
very definitely not an easy-to-spot spoof.
Colm
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