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DANmodetoday at 5:10 PM1 replyview on HN

> Do you think it looks official?

I check the address bar for that.


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teklatoday at 5:50 PM

You mean the thing that has been the source of many cybersecurity issues for years because fonts w/ ambiguous characters and varying levels of "how closely are you actually reading the URL"?

The very thing where sites like gmai1.com that look exactly like the real site phish creds?

Or things that even Google has issues with subdomains?

https://hoxhunt.com/blog/advanced-phishing-attack-using-goog...

The IRS site does use lots of subdomains like https://sa.www4.irs.gov, but even it looks like its using the same design language as the normal site.

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