Re: Taking advantage of "reflexive" responses in users

Subject: Re: Taking advantage of "reflexive" responses in users
From: Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:16:59 -0500

The moral of this is to check the links on our web sites on a regular basis!
These filth purveyors are, unfortunately, clever and use all sorts of dirty
tricks. Doesn't do to ever let our guard down, unfortunately.

Jo Byrd

John Posada wrote:

> Wanna talk about hijacking and redirects? I noticed this when I had my tech
> writing web site up. Porno companies are buying url's that aren't renewed.
> Since most sites are linked to another site somewhere
> and they links aren't maintained that well, all you do is change the IP
> address and it goes somewhere else.
>
> I had a set of links to javascript sites and one of them (that I know of) was
> changed to point to a porno site.
>
> The reason I say this is that if you have a web site with many links, it isn't
> enough anymore to have an automated program verify that there is an answer on
> the other end. There may be, but now it points to an unexpected address.





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