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**domainscot** · 02-17-2005, 02:05 PM

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...22215&from=rss

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 15, @03:06PM
from the that-was-easy dept.
tsu doh nimh writes "Netcraft has the story that Mozilla has decided to drop support for international domain names in future versions of its Firefox Web browser. The decision comes after demonstrations by the Schmoo Group that the feature can be used to aid in phishing scams and other browser naughtiness." From the article: "The attack can be disabled in Firefox and Mozilla by setting 'network.enableIDN' to false in the browser's configuration (enter about:config in the address bar to access the configuration functions). The Mozilla development team today made this the default setting. Users who want IDN support will be able to turn it on, but will be warned about the risks involved."

02-17-2005, 02:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
domainscot Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 10-31-2008 08:54 PM iTrader: (0) Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 103 DNF$: 217 Location: scotland	Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...22215&from=rss Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 15, @03:06PM from the that-was-easy dept. tsu doh nimh writes "Netcraft has the story that Mozilla has decided to drop support for international domain names in future versions of its Firefox Web browser. The decision comes after demonstrations by the Schmoo Group that the feature can be used to aid in phishing scams and other browser naughtiness." From the article: "The attack can be disabled in Firefox and Mozilla by setting 'network.enableIDN' to false in the browser's configuration (enter about:config in the address bar to access the configuration functions). The Mozilla development team today made this the default setting. Users who want IDN support will be able to turn it on, but will be warned about the risks involved."