This sort of reminds me of a kindly Wiltshire librarian who looked up the
British Heart Foundation for a customer by typing in www.bhf.org instead of
www.bhf.org.uk and ended up with busty horny females.
Chris Tinsley
Wiltshire County Council
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From: Tim Trent
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 25/10/05 14:28
Subject: Re: [data-protection] If you are willing I need a little help
ROFL. That site needs a login and password. My mind is boggling
already
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon Howarth
Sent: 25 October 2005 14:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] If you are willing I need a little help
I don't know if this is an urban myth or not, but I heard somewhere
about
Power Gen calling their Italian arm's domain name - powergenitalia.com
Funny if true.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Trent
Sent: 25 October 2005 14:19
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: If you are willing I need a little help
That one is so much fun, and not much one can do about it. Dear old
Scunny
has the same problem on a few forums still! That is down to a barking
mad
sysadmin at the receiving end I'm afraid
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Caroline Dominey
Sent: 25 October 2005 14:15
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] If you are willing I need a little help
Not quite the same but, I used to work for a company where local website
www.thisisexeter.com was automatically blocked, due to the three letter
word
in the middle!
Caroline
--On 25 October 2005 11:41 +0100 Simon Howarth
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Is this what you are looking for. A first hand account, as it happened
> to me....
>
> In 2001 I was doing some work for Yorkshire Electricity (now NPower),
> on a new "home services site". To cut a long story short I was in the
> process of doing a deal for a company that could supply "virtual PA
> services" and sent a link around to senior management and directors,
> quoting the link for them to go and look at the web site.
>
> Several of these senior people were in the same open plan offices as
> me, and it was only when one of them (a female, with a fortunately
> very broad mind) gasped and shouted "Simon, you better not be
serious..."
> that I realised me mistake.
>
> I typed www.ten.com
> I should have typed www.tenuk.com
>
> DO NOT go to ten.com unless you are very broad minded and are on your
> own web connection!
>
> Oh how we laughed (after my face was cooled with ice water).
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Trent
> Sent: 24 October 2005 16:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: If you are willing I need a little help
>
> Indeed yes. Domain hijacking takes the form of a hacker based actual
> hijack (nasty and illegal) or a "passing off" of (eg) plonk.com as a
> similar yet different site from plonk.org. Does one register
> "findingbacon.com" and "finding-bacon.com"? Does one also need
> .co.uk, .org, .net?
>
> The article is wider than simply surveillance. That is just one of
> the angles I'm covering
>
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> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Welton
> Sent: 24 October 2005 16:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] If you are willing I need a little help
>
> The issues can be a great deal wider that described, do not limit the
> article to simple typo incidents.
>
> There have in the past been situations where a url has been hijacked
> into leading to a circumstantially inappropriate site instead of the
> intended one. I dare say that is probably an ongoing problem which can
> also be associated with web sites where the security of web pages
> containing links is not adequate. Equally a site may have gone out of
> business with the url being taken over by a site not intended to be
> visited.
>
> Also some advertising on sites can lead to what may be deemed
> inappropriate sites, and may be selected by accident or means other
> than actions by the logged in user.
>
> Internet monitoring is not a panacea, producing many problems itself
> and diverting a great deal of attention away from core business.
>
> Ian W
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Trent
>> Sent: 24 October 2005 14:45
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: If you are willing I need a little help
>>
>>
>> I am writing a short article that has relevance to surveillance of
>> internet use at work. My focus is on what one might term "accidental
>> inappropriate use". I mean by this an example where a typing error
>> on
>
>> a legitimate website such as gartner.com leads to a porn site
>> garter.com (please trust me on this and do not click the link! The
>> site has become far less unpleasant than it was when it was projected
>> by accident to a large corporation by a bewildered salesman on a very
>> large screen). lifthansa.com (a simple typing error for lufthansa)
>> leads more pleasantly to a lift corporation. So you see where I'm
>> coming from.
>>
>> I'm looking for the idiotic as well as the deeply embarrassing, and I
>> truly do not ask you to try for the embarrassing while at work!
>> Unless, of course, you can say it was research for an article.
>> Though
>
>> I suspect a number of First Direct's online banking customers have
>> probably hit deep embarrassment at work!
>>
>> My challenge is either that I am not sad enough or that I am not
>> devious enough to find (or to imagine) the possible typos on real and
>> established domain names. Hence a request for help. I am not really
>> looking for things like whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov,
>> which is simple "Domain Blackmail"
>>
>>
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