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Adding common dyslexia homoglyphs #85

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@grk- grk- commented Aug 16, 2019

See real attacks based on exploiting dyslexia

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elceef commented Aug 17, 2019

Do you mean the reading disorder? Could you please elaborate more?

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grk- commented Aug 19, 2019

Dyslexia takes various shapes and reading difficulties in just one of them. A common case is people misreading b d p and q letters, h and n, c and e (this one was already covered in your initial code). My pull request just address a small portion of those reading disorders.
Note that some fonts are more misleading than others.
I've a case where such a substitution was made intentionally to mislead a person probably dyslexic.
This change on my copy of the code already pinpointed few domains controlled by bad guys, which were not identified in the master code of dnstwist.

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elceef commented Aug 20, 2019

Do you have any research paper on the topic?
Are you comfortable with sharing domain names that you have discovered?

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grk- commented Aug 20, 2019

I've found limited confirmations of my acquaintances experiences on Wikipedia[1][2], plenty of education support sites, but not yet full fledged research precisely describing the characters being substituted (there are way more than those I proposed).
I can privately share what I've discovered yes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexie#Font
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristics_of_dyslexia#Reading_and_spelling

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