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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 2003-09-23
Anonymous
Exactly, there must be a business reason to spend money to install and support host(s) to receive all of the junk requests from the internet. Perhaps it is just for the advertising income but I suspect it would be for more than that. I think all of the negative publicity happening would be a good r...

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