[149711] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Sun Feb 12 22:23:15 2012
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <192978.1329023607@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:22:18 -0500
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>=20
>=20
> Oh, and 'i' and 'l' need to be banned as well, because a san-serif =
uppercase I
> looks a lot like a san-serif lowercase l. (In fact, in the font I'm =
currently using,
> the two are pixel-identical).
>=20
> I don't see anybody calling for the banning of 'i' and 'l' in domain =
names due to that.
The very first phishing message I ever saw was from paypa1.com.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
