submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Arguably more security than privacy, but this made me think. I havent considered the use of ambiguous fonts in phishing before. Worth reading.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 2 months ago

They could add a lowercase to FE-Schrift (i.e. the German licence plate typeface, which was designed to make it very difficult to make any glyph look like anything but itself) and use that for the URL field.

[-] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Atkinson Hyperlegible would be a good starting point but I don't know how you could extend it to all of Unicode.

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