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It took me a while to get the joke because I didn't recognize that white ghost on a white background. I take this as another example why these non-ascii urls are a bad idea for security.
It took me a while to get the joke because I didn't recognize that white ghost on a white background. I take this as another example why these non-ascii urls are a bad idea for security.
It's not white, it's the blueish grey #E1E8ED. You need a better monitor :)
Not all unicode characters are valid IDN labels. For example, emojis are not valid in IDN labels.
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There are a bunch of different human writing systems. All of them are weird because they were invented by humans, most of them are very weird indeed because they were invented by humans a long time ago and then gradually mutated. The Latin system is the one you're using here. It's very popular. Most humans in the integrated tribes are somewhat familiar with it‡. It has twenty six "letters" and then twenty six more "c…
That’s unnecessarily patronizing.
I hate to be a spoilsport, but this is a good reminder that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack is still possible in some domains and with some browsers and CLI tools, although some of the easier tricks to detect have been mitigated.
if you run pihole or a local dnsmasq/unbound it should be possible to mitigate it by sinkholing any unicode domains, e.g. with dnsmasq (requires a patch https://github.com/spacedingo/dnsmasq-regexp_2.76 ) you can do this: address=/:xn--*:/0.0.0.0 does anyone know if something like this is possible with unbound?
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Do you mean Punycode, or this joke?
Punycode is the joke
This is using Punycode encoding, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain .
Why is this even a thing?
Assuming you can't read Arabic, how on earth would you even recognise that address, let alone remember how to type it.
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That’s unnecessarily patronizing.
I thought it was a well thought-out and clearly written answer to a question that comes across as dismissive.