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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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a way to make VS change their minds 2003-09-22
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I belive there is a way to flood VS http serwers with requests that points to unexistent domains without any harm to single users. Just place an img src="http://something_random.com" width=1 height=1 tag on as many pages as you can.

VS will be polluted with a bunch of 404 requests.

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