Security consideration: math symbols in an exotic IP address format in a phishing mail

Marius Spix marius.spix at web.de
Tue May 19 13:56:06 CDT 2020


> simple.
> 
> it isn't.
> 
> at least not here.
> 
> for me, pasting 𝟎𝟓𝟔𝟕𝟏𝟑𝟔𝟎𝟑𝟎𝟐 into a browser’s address bar leads to an
> http GET, not to an https one.
> 
> (curiosity won.)
> 
> (which comic was that where the kids were intentionally using integers
> instead of dns to asccess web sites to confuse anyonewatching them?)
> 
> -JimC

I deliberately did not send the complete URI. But I see a problem with
spam filters, because they have to recognize a lot more variants of IP
addresses.

Marius



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