Re: state of homograph attacks

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:06:18 PST, Richard Jacobsen said:

> Open up firefox, put about:config into the address bar, and then change
> network.enableIDN to false by double clicking on it. If it is working
> successfully, you should get a message "domainname.com could not be found"
> when clicking on an IDN link. You shouldn't need to restart your browser.

The actual bug referenced by Gerald is that if you use about:config to set it,
it *works* without having to restart, but at the next restart of the browser,
the setting no longer works...

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