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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
For what it's worth, I emailed Verisign about this and part of their response was:

"VeriSign is not logging and has no plans to log any email address sent to the Site Finder response server via SMTP."...

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