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Domain Name

A readable name, rented rather than bought, pointing at a numbered address. Look-alike names are the whole basis of phishing, so read them letter by letter.

Domain Name: A readable name, rented rather than bought, pointing at a numbered address. Look-alike names are the whole basis of phishing, so read them letter by letter. Think of it as The name on the door, not the building itself. Domain Name HOW THE INTERNET ACTUALLY WORKS A readable name, rented rather than bought, pointing at a numbered address. Look-alikenames are the whole basis of phishing, so read them letter by letter. READ IT LETTER BY LETTERTHE NAME YOU READTHE NUMBER BEHIND IT The name on the door, not the building itself. FOR EXAMPLE A page looks exactly like your bank. The name has one letter changed. Everything elsewas copied; that letter was not.
The drawing that proves the sentence above. It is the same card that is in the book.

Think of it as

the name on the door, not the building itself.

For example

A page looks exactly like your bank. The name has one letter changed. Everything else was copied; that letter was not.

This is one card out of 275.

The hundred words you meet most are free — the whole set, animated, in one file that works with no internet. Volume 1 has all 275 in fifteen chapters, with Staying Safe the largest chapter on purpose.

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