Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: solemnwarning on 8 May 2005, 01:44
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http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000610042620/ < i was in ##linux when this horror began, for 10 - 20mins google.com died, sombody hacked into the dns system and altered gooles dns records then changed the whois info, i blame M$ cos they are jealos of google being a good search engine and thier search sucking ass, when will ms attack google again?
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what proof do you have it is Microsoft?
In fact, a company called SoGoSearch hijacked the domain temporarily to point to their site.
(http://www.gigaom.com/images/googlehacked.gif)
I'm not one to trust screenshots, but thats the best guess at the moment.
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what proof do you have it is Microsoft?
In fact, a company called SoGoSearch hijacked the domain temporarily to point to their site.
Wrong. That screenshot was faked. Read the comments section of the report. "DNS poison != Google hacked".
I'm not pointing any fingers yet.
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if google was taken down, the whole world would end as we know it!
thanks to google I don't have to think! ;) (and Gmail rox0r's the big 1oneoneoneone`!)
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To clear things up, here's how it worked:
1. The company SoGo Search purchased http://com.net .
2. Google's DNS servers went down.
3. Browsers that guess domains (especially Safari, hence the pic) couln't get google.com, so they guessed google.com.net.
4. google.com.net, a subdomain, doesn't exist, so it redirects to com.net, and the SoGo Search page pops up.
EDIT: As of now http://com.net isn't working. But it was yesterday.