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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Sent: 24 October 2005 16:25
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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
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> Sent: 24 October 2005 14:45
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> Subject: If you are willing I need a little help
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> 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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