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apothegmlast Wednesday at 1:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Maybe not at super large font sizes. But even lowercase i and l are easy enough to confuse at a glance mid-word in most sans-serif fonts, not to mention uppercase I and lowercase l. You don’t even need “confusable” glyphs to create a domain name that will stand up to a casual visual confirmation from a busy user in a phishing context.


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hinkleylast Wednesday at 7:22 PM

Every Albert, Alfred, or Alphonso who goes by “Al” getting confused with bots right now…

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