Here’s a thought.  What if everyone, at least once a day, entered the URL “fuckyouverisign.com” into their browser as a protest against these assholes?

It’s certainly legal to type something into your own browser and if they’re logging “typos” (which I have no doubt they are), it just might give them the idea we really don’t like them and their shitty actions.

This is a bit of a red herring, in that the Omniture SiteCatalyst bug is simply a web-tracking tool, no different than many other Javascript-based tools out there. The cookie is part of the standard system, and allows it to report data like the number of unique users, which is much harder to reconstruct from server logs. Claiming this is snoopware muddies the waters, because every web site operator has an interest in usage statistics. And no, I don’t work for Omniture, but we do use SiteCatalyst to track our site’s usage. It doesn’t reveal anything more personal than log analysis would.

TLD wildcards might be amusing but they damage children.  American teenagers often leave highshool illiterate.  Many can barely read let alone type well.  Shouldn’t our children know when they mistype URLs?  Remove them.. for the children.

- S.H.

George Orwell was ahead of his time with “1984”. I wondered, while I was reading the book, what it would be like to have Big Brother watching over my shoulder. Now I know.  Guess it IS time for another Boston Tea Party!

S.H. is korekt and the skools ar not going to git any funding if they dont teach our kids to spel fonetiklee.  I had a chat with the Superintendant of the local High School and I was told that Federal and State funds would NOT be given to the schools if they did not follow the Gov’t guidelines of the “Dumbing Down” of our children.  Wake up parents!  If you don’t go get after the School Boards of your child’s schools, who will?  I’m glad I graduated with a good education and not one geared to let the Illegals in this country take it over!  Tanya’s Tea Party is LONG AGO NEEDED!  Iraq just took our minds off the real problem…Our children and the influx of Illegal Aliens..and I don’t mean ALF !

It’s appalling that these companies get away with such indecent practices. Let’s write our government to help stop this by sanctioning stiff penalties for companies such as this. Let’s make them go bankrupt. I would like to see how well they would put up with all of us watching their moves. They need to do something about this problem because I have spent several days trying to fix all the junk they have placed on my computer. They ought to do what they are doing to telephone solicitors- Spy now -Major pay back!!!!!

snoop on people who make domain name typos?
how do you know that this is a bug?

I agree I have been attacked several times by Omniture they were all blocked by McAfee firewall and I traced them and reported them to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) they were very helpfull and told me that Omniture leases the IP address that I reported and said such practice is illegal and they will investigate the attacks and I have reported more like they said to do. I even talked on the phone with them at Internap the are going to try to stop this if you have copies from your firewalls send them to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) the more reports the better so they can take it to Omniture. I have also takin my own steps by banning the IP range 216.52.17.0 - 216.52.17.255 in my Firewall now they get no response so they even try to ping me lololol but I am not there lolol

Good lord! The paranoia & ignorance around this issue astounds me.  If you were to do the research, damn near every site you visit tracks anonymous visitor click stream behavior.  The data is typically used by site operators to find trouble spots and optimize the site for better visitor experience.
Others use it to understand what brought you to the site.  The data is anonymous unless you agree have you personal information tracked.
Whether it’s log file or Javascript it’s happening..guess what? CircleID does it too! via log file analysis! If you think this type of tracking is an “attack” or “snooping” then don’t use google, don’t use MSN, don’t use yahoo, and definitely don’t bitch when you experience sites that are not user friendly.  The only safe bet for those who are too lazy to research what type of tracking is helpful to visitors and what type of tracking is truly a threat, I advise you just stay off line.