God dammit, what pisses me off most is even if verisign stop today ( and I am convinced they will be forced to stop in the next week or so ), a lot of damage has already been done. They've harvested *millions* of mistyped domains, run statistical software over it, and harvested the most profitable.
They have done the same thing with emails, and have generated vast lists pertaining to certain interest groups, and will sell them on to large marketting concerns.
Verisign's own site states that they monitor all traffic to their servers.
URGE TO KILL...*RISING*!
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*sigh* I gotta learn to use 'preview' :)
http://www.io2technology.com/ :)
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God dammit, what pisses me off most is even if verisign stop today ( and I am convinced they will be forced to stop in the next week or so ), a lot of damage has already been done. They've harvested *millions* of mistyped domains, run statistical software over it, and harvested the most profitable. They have done the same thing with emails, and have generated vast lists pertaining to certain interest groups, and will sell them on to large marketting concerns. Verisign's own site states that they monitor all traffic to their servers. URGE TO KILL...*RISING*!
Oh they thought it through. They knew the implications perfectly well. They didnt tell anyone because they knew no-one would stand for it :)