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[ale] OT: security
- Subject: [ale] OT: security
- From: leamhall at gmail.com (leam hall)
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:13:48 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <CABo2fvBvWQmkchbzLmOa_aF=cnMN-m4SZZL2uO36by54ikoyPQ@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > http://hackaday.com/2017/04/19/you-think-you-cant-be-phished/
>
> Wow, what's old is new again.. I remember this "attack" from years and
> years ago, where someone came up with a "www.paypal.com" using the greek
> alpha (IIRC -- maybe it was cyrillic) instead of the latin a to get a
> domain that "looked" the same.
>
> "Those that do not study history are doomed to repeat it."
>
> -derek
>
> This is why the IoT scares the heck out of me. Programmer's aren't paying
attention to the existing body of security knowledge and getting more and
more invasive into our lives.
Leam
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