cygiwn.com

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Mon Aug 20 19:25:00 GMT 2007


On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Cary Jamison wrote:

> Has anyone else ever misspelled cygwin.com and gone to cygiwn.com?
>
> It brings up one of those generic pages with 'related searches', from some
> domain name squatter.  One of the 'related searches' is "Muck", which pulls
> up links to places selling Muck boots.  I'm sure these are a necessity when
> dealing with hippos - but how did they know?

They must've used hippo-based encryption at some point (see recent
thread).
	Igor
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