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by DANmode 40 days ago
> You mean the thing that has been the source of many cybersecurity issues for years because fonts w/ ambiguous characters and varying levels of "how closely are you actually reading the URL"? The very thing where sites like gmai1.com that look exactly like the real site phish creds?

Yes, that’s the one.

If I’m really paranoid, I’ll:

1.) avoid providing data to that page

2.) cross-reference host IP

3.) find the page on the original URL via search index

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So you dont just read the address bar as claimed
I do - unless I’m really paranoid, as claimed!

Much like I often manually type, or OCR, URLs from untrusted sources.