[WEB4LIB] RE: "Hijacking" Websites

[Michael Sauers]

> The article broadly explains how they're doing it:  they copy the coding,
> including keyword metatags, then republish the pages on other servers.  a
> Javascript program is embedded in the duplicated sites
> redirecting people to
> the porn sites; apparently they also add coding making it difficult for a
> person to shut down the browser software or surf elsewhere.

This isn't really hijacking a site. Its just misrepresenting the original
document. A true hijacking would involve a user going to the real URL and
getting something else.

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