Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains

tsu doh nimh writes "Netcraft has the story that Mozilla has decided to drop support for international domain names in future versions of its Firefox Web browser. The decision comes after demonstrations by the Schmoo Group that the feature can be used to aid in phishing scams and other browser naughtiness." From the article: "The attack can be disabled in Firefox and Mozilla by setting 'network.enableIDN' to false in the browser's configuration (enter about:config in the address bar to access the configuration functions). The Mozilla development team today made this the default setting. Users who want IDN support will be able to turn it on, but will be warned about the risks involved."

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Drops support for..

[Anonymous Coward]

Mozilla drops support for international domains, and slashdot drops support for... the article!

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How about selective INT Domain Filtering?

[Cr0w T. Trollbot]

For example, how about turning off domains for Korea and China? In my experience, that would eliminate more than half the problem right there...

Spaces in URLs

[SeanDuggan]

What I'm waiting for is for them to change the specifications on web addresses to allow spaces in them. Honestly, how many years have companies been forced to advertise their business as http://www.surfboardsandmore.com rather than http://www.surboards and more.com? Not to mention the ugliness which occurs when someone uses spaces in the path... if they name their folder "Help for Database Conflicts" you're likely to get that rendered as "Help%20for%20Database%20Conflicts." I realize that the first issue is one of how the WWW and related services is set up. The issue of rendering URLs in the address bar is something they can fix.

Drops?

[Black Parrot]

I see that two other people have used this subject line, so I guess it must be the next big "fp" kind of thingy, and I just want to get in on it before everybody starts doing it.

Anti-slash reacts to the firing of Michael

[jihadi_fungus]

For public distribution (13 Feb 2005):

Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.

In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.

The specifics of this case are documented in this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138099&cid=115 70041
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I got this from a verified source who's in the know:

Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.

Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.

Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.

During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.

At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)

michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.

There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.

michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.

Fact: Slashdot's editors are dying

Re:Anti-slash reacts to the firing of Michael

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard that Michael joined the GNAA. Any truth to that?

Re:Anti-slash reacts to the firing of Michael

[Anonymous Coward]

This news is almost as old as some of the stuff Slashdot posts.

mmmm.....pita

[Anonymous Coward]

anyone else up for middle eastern? i'm starved.

Re:Drops?

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I guess it shows that a monkey can be an editor. I think monkeys take food as currency, so it would be easy for the rest of us to pay them off to accept our ad-story like Roland Pimp'nquialle does.

Well Michael got fired.

[glrotate]

So maybe Zonk is next?

Re:IDNC3

[Neuroelectronic]

I thought they fixed this already. Wasn't there a new build released like 12 hours after the fact, that fixed this problem? I disabled the IDN support and then installed the new build, and it was re-enabled.