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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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Fighting SiteFinder 2003-09-21
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I have spent all of Saturday trying to exclue myself from th SiteFinder service.

Unfortunately Verisign has a bot answering it's emails, I had two identical responses

presumably coming from real people.

I suggest that people call them up and point out that this "service" theyre receiving

from Ve...

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