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)

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-21
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)

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-23
Anonymous

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' Complaints 2003-09-23
Anonymous

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-23
Anonymous

Questions about Verisign's 'SiteFinder' Terms of Use. 2003-09-23
Michael Strom

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-24
Hugo van der Kooij (2 replies)

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-25
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

You are not able to not use sitefinder!! Get what I mean? It means that you HAVE to use its service, regardless of whether you accept or decline its "Terms of Service"(which there are no Accept or Decline buttons anyway.).

This means that Verisign is now the sole page that is directed to when you type a bad address!

Man I actually miss the microsoft DNS error messages!

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