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by BurningFrog 2387 days ago
Unicode URL has serious security problems.

The canonical example is google.com vs gооgle.com.
3 comments
riquito 2387 days ago
That was solved years ago by IDN/Punycode (implemented by any browser worth their salt).
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jagracey 2387 days ago
Commented above, but to follow up from yesterday, here is the next post.

"Hacking GitHub with Unicode" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21693550

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jagracey 2387 days ago
I agree. I'll be releasing an article about this tomorrow. There are in-fact many security ramifications that have not been solved in practice.
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