full-disclosure - [inbox] Re: Petition against VeriSlime's DNS abuse

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Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030919205022.03a4fd40@mail2.m5computersecurity.com>
From: mike at m5computersecurity.com (Michael J McCafferty)
Subject: [inbox] Re: Petition against VeriSlime's
  DNS abuse

No, that won't work. That'll only send you to Google if you request 
sitefinder.verisign.com specifically. It will not send you to Google if you 
misspell the domain. If you wanted to see Google, you would have to have 
the misspelled domain in your hosts file.


At 08:34 PM 9/19/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>???
>nah, all you need is to enter the following line in your HOSTS file:
>
>216.239.53.99 sitefinder.verisign.com
>
>   That way you'll get google's error message and never have to see 
> Verisign's shit again :-)
>
>   Exibar

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