{"id":145,"date":"2005-02-07T08:05:03","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/using-international-characters-as-part-of-an-identity-attack"},"modified":"2005-02-07T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T16:05:03","slug":"using-international-characters-as-part-of-an-identity-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/using-international-characters-as-part-of-an-identity-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Using International Characters as Part of an Identity Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a &quot;great&quot; one. Apparently, there are so many Unicode characters that look just other Unicode characters but have a different code. Tailor-made for an identity attack. Try it out at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shmoo.com\/idn\/\" target=\"_blank\">spoof Paypal site<\/a>, it&#8217;s indistinguisable from the original!<\/p>\n<p>A great illustration of why Kim&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/2005\/01\/14.html\" target=\"_blank\">6th Law<\/a> is an important idea, but extremely difficult to accomplish &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/56110\" target=\"_blank\">Heise<\/a>, in German)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a &quot;great&quot; one. Apparently, there are so many Unicode characters that look just other Unicode characters but have a different code. Tailor-made for an identity attack. Try it out at this spoof Paypal site, it&#8217;s indistinguisable from the original! A great illustration of why Kim&#8217;s 6th Law is an important idea, but extremely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_identity","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}