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                             Beware typosquatting

When I initially added the links [1] to the IETF RFC database (Internet
Engineering Task Force/Request For Comments) [2] I made a typo. Instead of
linking to “I-E-T-F dot O-R-G” I instead typed it as “I-E-F-T dot O-R-G [3]”
and … wow. Easily a dozen redirects, probably half a dozen attempts to infect
my computer and landing on some company website I never heard of hawking
seminars to help you pass Cisco training and certificaitons [4].

Shudder.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2014/04/26.2
[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting
[4] http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/certifications/index.html

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