Post your HN tricks.

Re:Post your HN tricks. by jobeirne on Monday August 17, 2009 @01:18AM (#767412)

http://hackerne.ws -> http://news.ycombinator.com

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Re:Post your HN tricks. by SwellJoe on Monday August 17, 2009 @03:16AM (#767537)

While I guess the folks who registered this name have nothing but legitimate intent, this is pretty much text book man-in-the-middle attack technique. It would take one change to the DNS record and a simple sniffing proxy, and every user to use that address would be compromised.

As long as it is not owned by pg and rtm, I would strongly suggest you use news.ycombinator.com

Actually looking at the registration data, I'm extremely suspicious of this name. If I had ever used it, I would be changing my authentication details.

whois for hackerne.ws:

1234567 lemesos, lemesos 12345 Cyprus

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: HACKERNE.WS Created on: 27-Nov-07 Expires on: 27-Nov-09 Last Updated on: 28-Nov-08

Administrative Contact: man, europe [email protected] none 1234567 lemesos, lemesos 12345 Cyprus 35799123456

Technical Contact: man, europe [email protected] none 1234567 lemesos, lemesos 12345 Cyprus 35799123456

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Re:Post your HN tricks. by jacquesm on Monday August 17, 2009 @04:08AM (#767599)

yep.

And even if the folks who registered it are 'legit', if they let the domain lapse who knows where it will end up and it's not as though you'll get a warning the next time you point your browser to that address.

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