HomoGraph Attack – Shift Blame to the User?

[Manfred Schubert]

With regard to the homograph "attack":

OmniWeb shows the site icon before the URL. For a Unicode URL how about 
showing a "Unicode symbol" next to the site icon and before the URL? 
Let's say a red square with a white U in it or something like that. 
Maybe even make the  background of the URL field change colour like 
Forefox does for secure web pages. Secure pages in Firefox become 
yellow, Unicode URLs could become red or blue or so.

That way it would be possible for the user to recognize that he is 
viewing a Unicode URL web page and he can check it further (for example 
clicking the U symbol could reveal the "real" address). If the user 
doesn't check he is to blame again; the browser is arguably fixed.


Manfred