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		im3w1l on Oct 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass s... What can I as a user even do to protect myself from this? Like what is the best practice for finding the official website of some organization in a high stakes situation?

josephcsible on Oct 19, 2023 | [–]

To answer the first half of your post, use Firefox and enable network.IDN_show_punycode in about:config.

deely3 on Oct 19, 2023 | [–]

Always check URL, and never use browser that hide URL or show unicode in an URL string I suppose.

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