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Ask HN: How 𝕏.com Resolves to X.com?

by novateg on 7/30/23, 2:10 PM with 4 comments

• by spansoa on 7/30/23, 4:35 PM

  Homoglyph[0] attack / IDN homograph attack[1] mitigation in the browser

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

• by jadamson on 7/30/23, 2:17 PM

  It's silently converted to just "x.com", though I'm not sure what standard that's based on. It's not an IDN as the other comment suggests, as that character is disallowed under IDNA2008.

• by lanna on 7/30/23, 2:15 PM

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