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Post by sparkling »

There was a CCC talk with a similar approach, where researches bought expired government domains and typo / bit flip domains. For example: bund.de is managed by the German Federal Government and they purchased bund.ee, the Estonian TLD, which is both a typo and bit flip and started watching email and DNS requests coming in.

German language only unfortunately https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-verlorene-domains-offene-turen-w...

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Post by noman-land »

sparkling wrote: post #3

There was a CCC talk with a similar approach, where researches bought expired government domains and typo / bit flip domains. For example: bund.de is managed by the German Federal Government and they purchased bund.ee, the Estonian TLD, which is both a typo and bit flip and started watching email and DNS requests coming in. German language only unfortunately https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-verlorene-domains-offene-turen-…

This was a great one. The bit flipped domains idea is incredible.

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Post by telesilla »

I have a very early Gmail account I still use which collects an unbelievable amount of other people's emails who cannot be bothered to fill out a form correctly, hotel reservations, insurances. I could cancel them all easily and mess with people but I delete and move on.

It's easy to be a bad actor given the conditions that the internet was built on.

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Post by iberator »

noman-land wrote: post #4
sparkling wrote: post #3

There was a CCC talk with a similar approach, where researches bought expired government domains and typo / bit flip domains. For example: bund.de is managed by the German Federal Government and they purchased bund.ee, the Estonian TLD, which is both a typo and bit flip and started watching email and DNS requests coming in. German language only unfortunately https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-verlorene-domains-offene-turen-…

This was a great one. The bit flipped domains idea is incredible.

someone once bought dozen of google.com bit flipped domains hehe.

Re: Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

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Post by georgel »

iberator wrote: post #7
noman-land wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was a great one. The bit flipped domains idea is incredible.

someone once bought dozen of google.com bit flipped domains hehe.

Circuit City was a popular misspelled domain back in the early 2000s.

Re: Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

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Post by Simulacra »

Tangently related, but what do you do when you receive other people's email?

There're a couple of people with my name, one in Arkansas and another in South Carolina, and I get all sorts of email for them. They include their middle initial, but many people forget to include that middle initial, so I get utility bills, medical records, all kinds of things. Most of the time I delete it, but.. I feel kind of bad

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