Re:The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
by chrisfosterelli on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:07PM
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If they didn't use vanity names, then people would only remember the first/last few random characters and the phishing scheme could very well still work, just it'd be less readable for visitors. I don't think we can assume that if all the characters were random they would remember them all better.
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Re:The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
by JoshTriplett on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:14PM
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I don't think people would remember them better if completely random. Rather, I think if they're completely random, people might correctly assume they can't, and remain appropriately skeptical; if they include a vanity prefix, people seem likely to remember the vanity prefix and somewhat less likely to pay attention to the rest.