Quote from: NotATether on January 19, 2023, 07:39:45 PM

Quote from: MrFreeDragon on January 19, 2023, 05:41:09 PM

I just remembered that my case, cause OP also could face with the same fake clone web address while generating his paper wallet - fake clone in global WWW (with the similar spelling) or fake clone provided through DNS spoofing (OP saw bitaddress.org in his web browser, but actually visited completely different IP address).

Somebody should do a write up on how DNS spoofing works and how to protect ourselves from it.

This is going to hit s lot of inexperienced people who don't know how to avoid that kind of thing.

The typosquatting is easier to spot though.

The problem with a write up on DNS spoofing is there are a lot of people that have no idea what DNS is never mind spoofing.

https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-reference/dns-spoofing

Drifting OT a bit, but still within the I typed in www.some-internet-site.com and wound up at www.some-other-internet-site.com but it still showed www.some-internet-site.com is probably one of the biggest issue of free public Wi-Fi.

Going back to a comment I made here:

Quote from: DaveF on April 29, 2023, 03:46:48 PM

They block port 8333. Or a lot of times it's the other way, they only allow traffic on ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) and everything else is blocked. They may allow certain mail RECEIVING ports (110,143,993,995) and perhaps 587 for authenticated mail send but that's it. It's free, but they don't want to deal with the hassle of people doing anything other then browsing the web. So it's all blocked. I do that for a lot of my customers who want to offer public Wi-Fi. It really is more of free web browsing, for anything else get your own internet.

Although it's about downloading the blockchain I can put a lot of rules nto the routes that you are connecting to (so can any ISP) and hard code just about anything into the DHCP DNS serves you are connecting to (so can any ISP) so you sit down at your local coffee shop and connect to their Wi-Fi if the people operating the back end are trying to steal, it's not going to be impossible to do.

Even more so if you don't pay attentin and make sure you are going to HTTPS:// whatever instead of HTTP:// since faking SSL certificates is not as easy. Although it's not impossible.

-Dave