[asterisk-biz] de-latinization of the web -

[Bill Michaelson]

Will ICANN be allowing the use of Australian character sets too?

How do you write Coca-Cola in Australian, anyway?

Nitzan Kon wrote:
> So.. in other words... you totally missed the whole point of 
> his blog - re: there is REAL DANGER in allowing stuff like 
> Cyrillic characters that resemble English characters.
>
> Nobody wants to block other language from the web - they just
> want ICANN to find a solution to this huge gaping security
> disaster waiting to happen. If you stopped for a second to
> look beyond your hatred of the USA, you'd realize a few things:
>
> 1. Dean is Australian (duh!!).
> 2. English is common to many more countries other than USA.
> 3. It's a REALLY BAD IDEA to have characters that look the
> same visually represent different values in domain names.
> That's a real security threat to EVERY COMPANY OUT THERE.
>
> It's not about English vs. Other languages - it's about
> Hackers vs. Everyone else.
>
> -- Nitzan
> http://www.future-nine.com/
> http://www.comparevoipproviderrates.com/
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/29/09, gmail lists <vstath at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> I propose we nuke those idiots that use
>> such languages. The world is USA. USA is the world. Nuke
>> those terrorists in and out of our Internet. The internet
>> belongs to the USA too.
>>
>> People speaking other languages should be burnt. Why are
>> those languages useful anyway? No US people speak those
>> anyway. Why are they useful???? I don't get it!!! Damn
>> ICANN. 
>>
>>
>> Let's make a petition and stop ICANN. I can't
>> believe they didn't know. They must be part of this
>> conspiracy against us.
>>
>> This is really really bad. I also heard that someone
>> invented knives. They say it's to cut bread but some
>> terrorists abroad are using them and train against the US.
>> Let's nuke them too. Knives are bad. Bad bad bad. Oh my
>> god, it got worse. Check out the knive throwing video on
>> YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8cNrIR5ac
>> This "mother" is from Georgia... I am sure!!!
>> Someone may be injured by this!!!! I can't believe ICANT
>> didn't do anything about this!!!!! Let's ban knives
>> (outside the US). Those Neanderthals don't need them
>> anyway. They live in caves. 
>>
>>
>> Give me back my Paypal!
>>
>>
>> 2009/12/29 Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net>
>>
>> UPDATE
>> - This is really really bad -
>> check out the paypal phishing example on my blog already
>> using Cyrillic
>> characters
>>
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>> http://blog.collins.net.pr/2009/12/de-latinisation-of-web.html
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>> Please forward to everyone in a position to stop ICANN, i
>> cant believe they
>> didn't think of this in advance.
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Dean
>> Collins
>>
>> Cognation
>> Inc
>>
>> dean at cognation.net
>>
>> +1-212-203-4357  
>> New York
>>
>> +61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney
>> in-dial).
>>
>> +44-20-3129-6001 (London
>> in-dial).
>>     
>
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