Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

[Paul Howarth]

Robin Laing wrote:
> You were right to point out that this is not a virus or trojan but a 
> problem with trust and lack of knowledge.  It is a fair exploit of a 
> feature that was poorly implemented.

In what way was it poorly implemented? How could it have been done better?

A similar trick could be done without IDN, by registering something like 
"paypa1.com", which looks remarkably like "paypal.com" and uses only 
regular ASCII characters.

Paul.