Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP
by i336_ on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:08AM
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That's very true. Such attacks are predicated on an ignorant and/or lazy target demographic, I guess.
Incidentally, when I copied the link out of Chrome (57) it pasted the punycode link even though it showed "apple.com" in the omnibox. So then I carefully copy-pasted just the domain and TLD to work around Chrome's link-copying magic, submitted, and... discovered that Arc punycode-ifies Unicode domains.
So that was interesting, but it kind of killed the impact of the point I was making.
Incidentally, when I copied the link out of Chrome (57) it pasted the punycode link even though it showed "apple.com" in the omnibox. So then I carefully copy-pasted just the domain and TLD to work around Chrome's link-copying magic, submitted, and... discovered that Arc punycode-ifies Unicode domains.
So that was interesting, but it kind of killed the impact of the point I was making.