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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 - maybe 2003-09-25
Roger
Kind of nice, but you will probably want to generate it in CGI or Javascript so it can change frequently; however make sure it isn't on a page that is the target of a form with method GET, or they will get to log the form contents.

And of course they will still get a listing of everyone who's hit...

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