Yes, the fundamental problem of semantic collisions -- especially when that sort of name is legitimately picked up by marketing depts.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Alex Eckelberry <[email protected] > wrote: > Why use .info when you can have chase-online-banking-survey.com instead? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mwp] Ummmm, did they actually look at any of those .info > sites? > > A global provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced on May > 13 that a new Global Phishing Survey reveals that the .INFO domain is > the generic top-level Internet domain (gTLD) safest from phishing > attacks. The results of the Survey show that, during the second half of > 2008, .INFO had the lowest phishing rates and the lowest average attack > duration among the gTLDs measured. .INFO's phishing durations were half > the world average. > > http://www.afilias.com/news/2009/05/13/new-report-shows-info-domain-safe > st- > phishing-attacks > > (OK, I didn't do a survey, and I am probably even working from old > impressions. > But it seems to me I saw an awful lot of dangerous stuff on .info sites, > in comparison to actual legit material ...) > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > I finally realized why Windows is truly multitasking. I find myself > keeping some secondary task (like ... mail) handy so I can > make good use of the time I spend waiting for Windows.'n > -Steve Edelson > http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm > http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html > http://twitter.com/rslade > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > > _______________________________________________ > mwp mailing list > [email protected] > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mwp > > _______________________________________________ > 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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