On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 08:47:05AM +0100, bernard wrote: > > On 9 Aug 2015, at 23:43, Philipp Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Vanity onion addresses, for example, might have done more harm than good > > Why do you say that? What harm would human readable .onion addresses > do? And to who?
Vanity addresses encourage people to only verify the human-readable part of an address before clicking on it. That creates a false sense of security, which is already exploited by spoofed onion service addresses whose prefix and suffix mimics the original onion address. Cheers, Philipp _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
