full-disclosure - state of homograph attacks

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From: gerald at holl.co.at (Gerald Holl)
Subject: state of homograph attacks

fulldisclosure@...esearch.com wrote:
> V.    Workaround
> 
> You can disable IDN support in mozilla products by setting
> 'network.enableIDN' to false.  There is no workaround known for Opera or
> Safari.

Hello,

I use Firefox 1.0 on GNU/Linux but the workaround doesn't work if I
close the browser. No idea what's wrong ...

cheers,
Gerald