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by CapacitorSet 2215 days ago
>a very convincing page on śtellar.org

If you rarely use IDNs, toggling `network.IDN_show_punycode` in about:config can help with that - you would have seen `xn--tellar-2ib.org`.

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Thanks, I had originally typed up the URL in the comment with https:// and HN did convert to punycode, foiling the attack. I never use IDNs, even though I'm in Greece, so I've set that option, thank you.