The Typo Millionaires

Slashdot 看到一則新聞:The Typo Millionaires,其中一段提到打錯 url 形成的產業:

Studies estimate that 10-20% of all hand-entered URLs are mistyped, adding up to at least 20 million wrong numbers per day, helping to enrich the likes of porn purveyors, ISP’s, Paxfire, Microsoft and VeriSign.

相當令人莞爾 :p

我解釋一下,有很多色情網站,或是網路蟑螂會註冊跟某些熱門網站很像的 domain,所以就會產生正牌網站也註冊一卡車 domain 的情況:像是 www.gooogle.com 仍然會連到 Google

Paxfire 我並不熟,但是我剛剛查到的內容是這樣寫的:

Paxfire Inc. has developed a proven, patent-pending technology for ISPs called “HotWords” to perform address-bar searches and mistypes at the network level. HotWords enables ISPs to capture keywords (e.g. cars, books, etc.) and typos made by subscribers without the need for any desktop plug-in or other client-side software. A user can type a keyword or any mistyped domain name directly into the browser bar and get a search result with sponsored links. When a user clicks on one of those links, the ISP then gets a share of that revenue.

看起來像是 Layer 7 filter 或是 transparent proxy 的技術過濾後 redirect 到他想要的網站。

Microsoft 則是在 IE 找不到網站時自動導到 MSN Search 去尋找。

VeriSign 則是在 2003 年搞了 Verisign’s Wildcard Service (這是 ICANN 的紀錄) 將所有 .com 及 .net 不存在的 record 利用 DNS wildcard 的方式導到 Verisign 的某個 page,而引起所有人的反感。

Final Distance & Distance

聽宇多田 (Utada Hikaru) 的 Final Distance 與 Distance,發現一路聽下來很順 (因為 “Utada Hikaru – UH2 Single Clip Collection VOL2” 第一片最後面的歌是 Final Distance,然後再接 Distance),但是一直都沒有發現歌詞是一樣的 :p (然後還覺得「幹嘛取兩個這麼像的歌名啊」)

剛剛找了一下才發現是我誤會了 XD

CAcert

del.icio.us 上看到的玩意:CAcert.org。這個站台成立的目的是:

It’s been a long time coming, but the wait was worthwhile, finally you are able to get security at the right price… Free!

For years we’ve all been charged high amounts of money to pay for security that doesn’t and shouldn’t cost the earth.

The primary goals are:

Inclusion into mainstream browsers!
To provide a trust mechanism to go with the security aspects of encryption.

在 “CAcert.org Statistics” 可以看到目前的數量,而在 “Root Certificate” 可以 import root certificate。

不過很可惜,要手動 import key… XD

Gea-Suan Lin's technical note and murmuring :)