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[nycphp-talk] somewhat OT Re: validating proper name capitalization

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Thu Sep 29 17:08:51 EDT 2011


Heya:

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 04:12:38PM -0400, John Campbell wrote:
> 
> The l in the second paypal is actually a ḷ which is an l with a dot
> under it.  I could buy that domain and a SSL cert for it

And these days, you can even forge an SSL cert says you're the real
Paypal and/or use newly worked out TLS attacks to man-in-the-middle
secure sessions.

--Dan

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