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Apple Plugs IDN Spoof Bug

Posted by timothy on from the gosh! dept.

mmarlett writes "Security Update 2005-003 updates Safari's support for International Domain Names (IDN) to prevent lookalike characters from being used to spoof the URL displayed in the address field, SSL certificate, or status bar. Opera fixed this in Feburuary while Mozilla just dropped support for IDNs, and you may recall that Internet Explorer did not suffer from this exploit because it sucks."

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  1. Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "you may recall that Internet Explorer did not suffer from this exploit because it sucks."
    • News for nerds ... professionalism that ceased in '99.

    1. Re:Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      This is a forum with community provided news. It is also pro-Linux.

      Expect the odd joke or even rabid insult about Microsoft. Besides, IE really does suck compared to the other browsers in the market at the moment :)

      As for professionalism - one glance at the effort of the editors to construct correct sentences, check for duplicates etc. would tell you that /. has never been professional. It is not that sort of site. It is a good place to get some info relatively quickly, without having to check a dozen different sites. It occasionally has useful comments by some users.

      But it is not, and never has been a "professional" news forum. A forum for professionals (and others), yes... but that's not the same thing :)

      In the spirit of open source, I invite you to fork a project using /. code (or some code that actually doesn't suck), and make that as professional as you want!

  2. Right... by cold+wolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So if IE sucks because it doesn't support IDN, then Mozilla just started sucking since it dropped IDN.

    I don't think I can take much more suckage. Hurry up, Archy...