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by wholinator2 968 days ago
I think the idea is ambiguity between a zip file from your coworkers website and an entirely separate phishing website which downloads an entirely different zip file with a malicious payload.

Anything that introduces unnecessary and previously unforseen ambiguity to the olds is just another path to filling the internet with scams

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Browser vendors should just splash users with one of those click-through security warnings. Make it bright yellow.

I'd be very entertained by drama from owners of those domains, but in my opinion, such a thing would be completely justified.

Here’s the problem: the biggest browser vendor is the one selling the domains!
Well, we also have .com as a common extension on Windows machines?