[Ads-l] Has "typosquatting" come up in WOTY discourse?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Jan 9 00:53:50 UTC 2018


https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/consumer/family-safety/what-is-typosquatting/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting

The practice was featured in a segment of NBC’s Nightly News tonight.  I hadn’t heard of it.  It is more opaque than some blends, although relatively translucent for those familiar with cybersquatting.  Looks like the practice has been around for awhile but I don’t know when “typosquatting" was first coined as a term of art. 

LH
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