[ Thanks to Eddy
Nigg for this link. ]
“So far this apparently just worked fine because a
somewhat careless user simply doesn;t pay attention to the
microscopic indicators the browsers used to give us in the past.
Well, that’s perhaps an overstatement, but we learned that attacks
seem to work very well, because there were not enough prominent
indicators which would make a user aware that a site is not secured
and that the site isn’t even the one thought to be. I’ve complained
in a previous article that the address bar in Firefox could look
like this:”
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