On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Brian Foster wrote:
> yep. IMHO, the ???shocking??? thing here is the more actively
> developed browsers, released long after the 2001 CACM paper,
> have the problem to begin with. that paper was short and
> clear. there does not seem to be an excuse for having the
> problem with browsers released years (literally!) later.
It's not a browser vulnerability, they are merely correctly implementing
IDN. This is an actual designed-in feature of IDN, the fault lies with
the registries.
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