Potential Homograph attacks using IDN’s.
Check out the test below. Safari (1.2.4 (v125.12)) displays it “perfectly”, meaning that I can’t tell the difference of the “a” in “pay”, but it’s a cyrillic “a”. The article mentions that Firefox also has the problem, but it does not appear correctly to me (v1.0 on my Powerbook), it looks similar to what I mention in IE below. I have not tested in Opera. Ironically, as mentioned in the article, IE (v5.2 for Mac) does display a difference. Very subtle on the page, but the link, when rolled over, does not appear correctly.
http://www.pаypal.com
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