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The Homograph Attack

Old-timers remember crossing zeros (Ø) in program listings to avoid confusing them with the letter O. This has long been obsoleted by advances in editing tools and font differentiation. However, the underlying problem of character resemblance remains, and has now emerged as a security problem. On April 7, 2000, an anonymous site published a bogus […]

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