> This is a brilliant piece of social engineering baked right into the code. It's designed to specifically defeat the common security habit ...
I don't agree that the exuberance over the brilliance of this attack is warranted if you give this a moment's thought. The web has been fighting lookalike attacks for decades. This is just a more dynamic version of the same.
To be honest, this whole post has the ring of AI writing, not careful analysis.
I've been thinking about using Levenshtein to make hexadecimal strings look more similar. Levenshtein might be useful for correcting typos, but not so when comparing hashes (specifically the start or end sections of it). Kinda odd.
I don't agree that the exuberance over the brilliance of this attack is warranted if you give this a moment's thought. The web has been fighting lookalike attacks for decades. This is just a more dynamic version of the same.
To be honest, this whole post has the ring of AI writing, not careful analysis.