What will LL do about name spoofing once things move over to Unicode?
For example, there is a difference between...
http://www.paypal.com
...and...
http://www.paypаl.com
They are not the same site, because one "a" is replaced with "а".
Will someone be able to register a name like "Hаnk Ramos" (which is different from Hank Ramos) and go around giving me a bad name?
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Hank Ramos
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03-14-2005 03:42
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Eggy Lippmann
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03-14-2005 04:51
"Ramos" is no longer available
 I'd say that anyone who's name is worth stealing has an equally unavailable surname. Can't really see much of a problem in that. _____________________
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gene Poole
"Foolish humans!"
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03-14-2005 06:51
"Ramos" is no longer available I'd say that anyone who's name is worth stealing has an equally unavailable surname. Can't really see much of a problem in that.  Seriously though, even the noobiest of noobs should be protected from this sort of chicanery. Chaos is good; confusion, not so much. Mightn't someone file an abuse report including someone name as viewed? I suppose the Lindens who handle the report could see that it was spoofed; maybe that's good enough. But even still, the reputation of that user, in the mind of the reporter, would still be marred, no? |
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Marker Dinova
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03-14-2005 09:42
Whoah there, you elitist bastard! Seriously though, even the noobiest of noobs should be protected from this sort of chicanery. Chaos is good; confusion, not so much. Mightn't someone file an abuse report including someone name as viewed? I suppose the Lindens who handle the report could see that it was spoofed; maybe that's good enough. But even still, the reputation of that user, in the mind of the reporter, would still be marred, no? In fact, I think the lindens wouldn't necessarily come across the knowledge of the name actually being spoofed, because when they search, they will type it using the "unspoofed" characters. At least.. that's how *I* think it'll happen... _____________________
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Beatfox Xevious
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03-14-2005 11:46
I was under the impression that the move to unicode will only affect text entry within the client, not the name registration process at the website. Am I mistaken here?
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Hank Ramos
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03-14-2005 12:39
I was under the impression that the move to unicode will only affect text entry within the client, not the name registration process at the website. Am I mistaken here? Dunno. Just wanted to make sure LL had thought of and/or taken care of any potential problem. _____________________
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Zuzi Martinez
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03-14-2005 13:23
we still got unique keys and i'm betting that's how they keep track of everything important.
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Eggy Lippmann
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03-14-2005 13:56
Besides, I could just as easily get an account called Zuzl, Zuz1, Zuzj, Zvzi... no unicode in there.
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Zuzi Martinez
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03-14-2005 16:54
you wouldn't dare.......
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gene Poole
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03-14-2005 19:37
Besides, I could just as easily get an account called Zuzl, Zuz1, Zuzj, Zvzi... no unicode in there. |
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Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
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03-14-2005 22:39
Besides, I could just as easily get an account called Zuzl, Zuz1, Zuzj, Zvzi... no unicode in there. Yes, but none of "l, 1, j" are homologues of "i". In Unicode, it's quite easy to get two code points with the same glyph. _____________________
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Strife Onizuka
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03-15-2005 20:53
Hank don't worry, LL seens to have closed the hole in the join script with the use of closed last names. Secondly the join script does not support unicode characters (I couldn't get it to accept them).
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Ushuaia Omega
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03-15-2005 22:16
Hank don't worry, LL seens to have closed the hole in the join script with the use of closed last names. Thank goodness for that! |
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Jeffrey Gomez
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03-15-2005 22:29
Thank goodness for that! Quoth he who told us to say nothing here.  Edit: Just funny is all. _____________________
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Ushuaia Omega
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03-15-2005 22:35
Quoth he who told us to say nothing here. No longer an issue as the hole is plugged, don't you think? |
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Roberta Dalek
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03-15-2005 23:17
Well I think that the ability for people to have their name in their own alphabet is more important than the small possibility of name spoofing.
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Strife Onizuka
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03-16-2005 00:14
Well I think that the ability for people to have their name in their own alphabet is more important than the small possibility of name spoofing. But then things get ugly with find, having everything romanized helps. How is someone who doesn't have a Japanese, Chinese, Greek, or Russian keyboard going to search? _____________________
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Jillian Callahan
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03-16-2005 00:58
But then things get ugly with find, having everything romanized helps. How is someone who doesn't have a Japanese, Chinese, Greek, or Russian keyboard going to search? So, no having to search for 對象 or 目的 or Предмет or Αντικείμενο? _____________________
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Strife Onizuka
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03-16-2005 04:00
So, no having to search for 對象 or 目的 or Предмет or Αντικείμενο? ok how about Klingon, thats supported by unicode (sort of supported) _____________________
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Torley Linden
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03-16-2005 04:15
That would surely bring honor to the Empire.
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Jillian Callahan
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03-16-2005 05:18
I'd have to get everyone to install a font that includes it. (I don't think people that it all that seriously. How odd  )But... yeah! _____________________
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