Re: IDN spoofing

Simon Montagu wrote:
> Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> 
>> I've thought about getting ɯoɔ.com for similar reasons...
>>
>> And of course, there's always plenty of room to play around with such 
>> things on the subdomain level, like having əլɓooɓ.google.com be an 
>> upside-down version of the page.
> 
> 
> I expect you've come across elgooG: http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi
> 
> AFAICT they do that the hard way by passing the content through a script 
> which reverses all the texts. It could be done much more easily with the 
> CSS unicode-bidi property ;-)

What a hoot!  You've gotta love the web for the sheer silliness it 
brings out.  Which in my opinion is very good reason not to go overboard 
with the IDN policing.

It's only a matter of time until an entire "inverted web" begins to appear:

tr/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\.!\?,;'/ɐqɔpəɟɓɥᴉſʞլɯuodbɹsʇnʌʍxʎz˙¡¿‘؛ˌ/

How long with it be until a font maker makes a special 'turned' font so 
the ʍʍʍ looks pretty?

I'm not so crazy about the j and l; maybe we should make a proposal?  :)

-g