Verisign Typosquatter Explorer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 17, 2003 @08:42AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

jelyon quotes Seth Finkelstein's website "I have written a program " Verisign Typosquatter Explorer" in order to examine [the Verisign] suggestions [for mistyped domains]. Future data may be analyzed as interest permits. Note tests with some domains seem to return results which are not constant, i.e. differences when the program is run repeatedly. This is not a program bug. Reloading the Verisign page also changes which squat-suggested domains are displayed. I don't believe it's an advertising rotation, but the behavior is similar to that practice."

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Re:20 lines of perl code makes a Slashdot story? by Xerithane · 2003-09-17 09:56 · Score: 0, Troll

It depends on the code. Remember, the DeCSS code was only 7 lines of Perl. That had fairly far reaching effects on the rights of computer users.

The impact wasn't the code, but the decryption keys.

I have a script that does more aggregate data to correlate friend/fan/foe/freak relationships in bash, maybe that can get posted on Slashdot!

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