[technology taskforce] Google Developers : Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

 A large problem is when bad persons obscure the domains of companies in
phishing campaigns so that persons go to the bad persons' website on
another domain and steal their credentials or get malware installed.

So say you get an email link from a trusted person whose been hacked saying
- "hey we're not sure your paycheck was delivered to mybankinfo. Can you
login to mybankinfo.com.paymentlogin.info and check?
The challenge is that persons may just see "mybankinfo.com" and assume they
are going to the mybankinfo.com site.
And because they clicked on the link, how would the browser "know" what the
site you really intended to go to?

Dev Anand

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:04 PM Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com> wrote:

> On 07-02-2020 19:49, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
> > Hmm....How would persons know what is the website they are viewing on
> > without the URL?
>
> How many users check out the website info in URLs anyway? How will they
> know that Mybankinfo.com is OK, but mybank.info isn't?
>
> Shouldn't it be the job of the browser to check if the web site is the
> one you want to talk to (based on certificates)?
>
>         Julf
>
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