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The original idea has a better name: Bitsquatting[0]

"Experiment To determine whether bit7errors can redirect connections to attacker controlled sites, the bitsquat domains in Table 3 were registered, and all HTTP requests to the domains were logged. The domains, such as li6e.com, mic2osoft.com, and fjcdn.net are very unlikely to be typos or keyboard errors."

[0] https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabu...




Thanks! That's brilliant.




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