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Since the clone site isn't doing anything obviously malicious like spreading malware or blatantly illegal content none of those parties will take any action wha
by mx7zysuj4xew 8mo ago
Since the clone site isn't doing anything obviously malicious like spreading malware or blatantly illegal content none of those parties will take any action whatsoever, nor should they.
- jacquesm 8mo agoIt isn't doing that now, but you can't be sure about what they're going to be up to a little ways down the line, the fact that they are clearly trying to misdirect the traffic is proof positive they're up to no good. Just do a bit of risk assessment if something like this were to be shipped to people that have come to blindly trust the source and you'll see why letting this slip is a very bad idea.
- pocksuppet 8mo agoMost registrars and hosts consider phishing already malicious, even if there's no obvious malware download or anything.
- luckylion 8mo ago"Phishing" has a _very_ different meaning from "offer the option to sign up for a newsletter", let's not conflate the two.
- andai 8mo agoWell, pretending to be an unrelated 3rd party for the purposes of harvesting people's personal information, which can then be used to send them emails, which they will think are from that unrelated 3rd party...
- pocksuppet 8mo agoThe meaning registrars and hosts use is "looks like someone else's website"
- luckylion 8mo agoCould be, but this doesn't. It has the same name and is _about_ the same thing, but it doesn't look like the other site. Just because you have pocksuppet.org and I hack pocksuppet.net doesn't mean that one of us is phishing.
- james_marks 8mo ago*yet Build the audience first, attack comes later