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This reminds me of Bitsquatting, which is like typosquatting but uses domains one bit-flip away instead of one mistyped letter away.[0] In a small experiment, for some popular domains, the author reportedly got a lot of hits.

In the associated DEFCON talk, the author notes that even if you use ECC memory, it's unlikely that the DRAM in your hard drives does too.[1]

0: http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WcHsT97suU




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