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coherent_domain@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

In general only click on a link if you trust the domain. A URL usually looks like this: first.second.third…

And be very careful, only the second and the thrid word between dots count.

For example: suspicious.google.com is in general fine, since the second and third word is google.com . However, lemmy.legit-lemmy.world is unsafe, because the second and thrid word are legit-lemmy.world, but not lemmy.world.

There are ways to smuggle unsafe asset under legit URL, usually by uploading them on google drive, github etc. The good rule of thumb is to never run anything on your computer unless you are absolutely sure it comes from trusted source, like official website.

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Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Recently it has become a problem that optical twins of legit URLs exist, where some letters have been replaced by alike letters from different alphabets, see e.g. the list in this link.

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- tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’m pretty sure ff shows punycode automatically. I’ve never had to touch it at least and I get punycode.
  
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  - Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Tbf, the article is from 2018. It possibly has changed in the meantime.
    
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- joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Dang. Is there an equivalent Firefox add-on that checks for this stuff?
  
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  - tyler@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ff shows punycode. The article is quite old.
    
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- Docker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
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gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Definitely don’t click on links like this one: trustmethisisnotascam.com

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