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Re: [mwp] Ummmm, did they actually look at any of those .info sites?
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 13:58:07 +1200
Alex Eckelberry to Rob Slade:
Why use .info when you can have chase-online-banking-survey.com instead?
Yeah, but why use chase-online-banking-survey.com when you can use chase-online-banking-survey.freetown.com or chase-online-banking- survey.freeweb.net or even 1.2.3.4/online.chase.com (or whatever their online banking sub-domain is)? True, some of those (well, the IP-only one) have lost favour because of spam filtering and "security" features in MUAs. The stats are reported as rates, not raw numbers (well, the raw numbers were in the APWG presentation I saw -- I've not seen the actual report and am composing this offline so can't check) it's not about sheer popularity (though being smaller _may_ mean .info has more (clueful) response resources percomplaint to expend... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: [mwp] Ummmm, did they actually look at any of those .info sites? Alex Eckelberry (May 14)
- Re: [mwp] Ummmm, did they actually look at any of those .info sites? Dan Kaminsky (May 14)
- Re: [mwp] Ummmm, did they actually look at any of those .info sites? Nick FitzGerald (May 15)
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