Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo
Deborah Radcliff, SecurityFocus 2003-09-19

Privacy advocates have joined the chorus of critics of Verisign's "SiteFinder," which on Monday began directing mistyped dot-com and dot-net e-mail and Web addresses to a search site operated by the company and Overture.com, a Pasadena, Calif.-based advertising company that brands itself as a search engine.

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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

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Coldman

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-19
Anonymous

Who's Omniture and what's all this stuff? 2003-09-19
Anonymous

Fighting SiteFinder 2003-09-21
bl0rf

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-22
Anonymous

a way to make VS change their minds 2003-09-22
L (1 replies)

a way to make VS change their minds - maybe 2003-09-25
Roger

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

If you can't trust Verisign to tell you the truth about a simple thing like whether or not a domain name is a valid registered name or not, what in the world would make anybody think they were telling the truth about what they were doing with all of the marketable data that is being sent to their servers?

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Anonymous

Not their first sleazy tactic. 2003-09-29
Anonymous

THEIFS stole my money and broke my internet NOW! 2003-09-27
Anonymous

Verisign is Spam!! You are not able to not use Sitefinder!! 2003-09-30
Jimmy

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-30
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