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Bitsquatting refers to registering a domain name one bit different from the target domain name. The intent is that a memory error will cause someone to get the
by muraiki 9y ago
Bitsquatting refers to registering a domain name one bit different from the target domain name. The intent is that a memory error will cause someone to get the bitsquatted site instead of the legitimate one.
"During the logging period there were a total of 52,317 bitsquat requests from 12,949 unique IP addresses. When not counting 3 events that caused extraordinary amounts of traffic, an average of 59 unique IPs per day made HTTP requests to my 32 bitsquat domains."
http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html
Overheating can be a cause of bit errors, and heat is a concern in mobile devices and laptops.
- haikuginger 9y agoNow I'm curious to see how different user agents would handle SSL validation for bit errors at different points in the process.