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Google Logo Ligature Bug
Jeffrey Yasskin recently pointed out an interesting security bug: The idea is, if you had registered googlelogoligature.net then Chrome on Android (and possibly other Google products) would have displayed it as Google.net, potentially tricking users into thinking they were really interacting with Google. To see how this worked, you can try searching Google for ["googlelogoligature"], and yo
Jeffrey Yasskin recently pointed out an interesting security bug: Using a ligature to get the Google logo into text-only interfaces is a reasonable product decision, but it shouldn't have been added to a general-purpose font. And especially shouldn't have been added to a font used for rendering attacker-controlled text in security-sensitive contexts.
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