| ▲ | yorwba 9 hours ago |
| The article says "Filed takedown notices with Google, Cloudflare, and the domain registrar spaceship.com" |
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| ▲ | ariehkovler 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yeah but you do need to hang the takedown on some technical reason like copyright or scamming. The issue here is there's no obvious victim. Makes a takedown harder. |
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| ▲ | mx7zysuj4xew 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Since the clone site isn't doing anything obviously malicious like spreading malware or blatantly illegal content none of those parties will take any action whatsoever, nor should they. |
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| ▲ | pocksuppet 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Most registrars and hosts consider phishing already malicious, even if there's no obvious malware download or anything. | | |
| ▲ | luckylion an hour ago | parent [-] | | "Phishing" has a _very_ different meaning from "offer the option to sign up for a newsletter", let's not conflate the two. |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It isn't doing that now, but you can't be sure about what they're going to be up to a little ways down the line, the fact that they are clearly trying to misdirect the traffic is proof positive they're up to no good. Just do a bit of risk assessment if something like this were to be shipped to people that have come to blindly trust the source and you'll see why letting this slip is a very bad idea. |
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