wilhide
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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 Posted: 06/05/06 - 05:00 Post subject: Opera and Browser Spoofing |
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I am using the Opera browser and I just love it. It is really a class browser in everyway, and I don’t have much to say on that subject. But although it is good, sometimes when I want to open some link, I get something else. I would like to know if that spoofing is possible because of browser or just because of imperfection of internet structure.
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borak
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: 06/11/06 - 06:30 Post subject: |
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However, the information that I have is that browser spoofing is due to Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) support that enables all of the languages to be used in writing domain names. This goes somehow like this: there are languages that use the same looking characters meaning: some letters look the same, but are actually different letters in different languages. This enables some domain names to be written in a different set of characters, although to you it looks just the same. As for your browser and DNS servers it is a different domain name but when written, it looks just the same. This enables some person to spoof and mislead your browser to some else page of the same looking domain name, but just looking. So in a light of this explanation, all the browsers could be misguided if they support Unicode based domain names. As I found Opera is responding this problem by enforcing a policy of “whitelist” of trusted domain names but this issue can be solved only at the level of domain names registrars.
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