A child's curiosity will always trump the laid down law. Unless of course you beat them on a regular basis.
According to TFA:
The Typo-Patrol scanner built into the tool currently consists of a network of 17 machines, each running a daemon process that monitors its own input-request queue residing in a folder on a central management machine. According to Wang, when a list of typo-domains is dropped into the queue, the daemon fetches the list and launches virtual machines to visit each domain.
The daemon copies all recorded data to the host machine, including information on all secondary URLs visited, the content of all HTTP requests and responses, and optionally a screen shot. Upon completing the scan of the entire list, the daemon copies all data to its output folder on the central management machine, Wang said.
Recorded data in the output folder is inserted into a typo-domain database for data queries and analysis.
Doesn't sound like a tool for general release.
More to the point, with enough information and the proper lobbying we can probably expect to see some legislation addressing this. If not legislation, then at least some lawsuits.
I think this will lead to a crackdown on the #!@#%...ahem...typosquatters and some good(?) PR for M$.
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And I thought we were going to have to wait for colonization of Terminus before everyone agreed that Nuclear power is the best power.
A child's curiosity will always trump the laid down law. Unless of course you beat them on a regular basis.
According to TFA: Doesn't sound like a tool for general release.More to the point, with enough information and the proper lobbying we can probably expect to see some legislation addressing this. If not legislation, then at least some lawsuits.
I think this will lead to a crackdown on the #!@#%...ahem...typosquatters and some good(?) PR for M$.