[asterisk-biz] FW: de-latinisation of the web - http://blog.collins.net.pr/2009/12/de-latinisation-of-web.html

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The problem is not ICANN or the use of non-Latin character sets. The 
problem is the way current browsers handle non-Latin character sets and 
how human beings pay attention to them. Both of these technical problems 
are, theoretically, surmountable. However, given the history Apple, 
Mozilla, and Microsoft have with allowing gaping security holes to exist 
in their handling of non-Latin character data, and the overall history 
of people who tend to, on average, be rather clueless about how the 
Internet works, I'm not sure how practical it is to assume that this is 
actually a solvable problem.

To disallow the vast majority of speakers of the world the use of their 
own languages (remember, Mandarin is still the number one spoken 
language in the world, and as China will continue to grow as a world 
power in the decade to come, this number is only going to grow) simply 
because there are some lazy developers and some lazy people who create 
dangers where none really should exist is NOT a solution. It's a 
bandage. A kludge, as it were.

The dangers of the Internet will always be the criminals vs. everyone 
else (I will not use the term 'hacker' and criminal synonymously as they 
are not synonymous). Failing to move forward in a global world for fear 
of running into more criminals than you met before is never going to 
work as a solution.

N.

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:
>
>   
>> 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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