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A Reykjavík building that houses a penis museum and an H&M is also the virtual home to an array of perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware and disinformation

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Tags: internet, privacy, iceland.reykjavik, crime.cyber, services.proxy, hosting.web, namecheap, business, withheld for privacy, websites, theft.identity, ransomware, disinformation, fraud, author.steven lee myers, author.tiffany hsu, source.the new york times, paywall, offbeat
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/business/iceland-online-disinformation-identity-theft.html

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Title
Some of the Web's Sketchiest Sites Share an Address in Iceland
Published
Oct 9 2024
Word count
2302 words

6 comments

  1. [4]
    dlay
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    That's an interesting read. It seems inherent to the nature of the internet that nefarious activities can thrive alongside legitimate sites. Doesn't the real problem lie with the parties hosting...

    That's an interesting read. It seems inherent to the nature of the internet that nefarious activities can thrive alongside legitimate sites. Doesn't the real problem lie with the parties hosting the site itself, rather than the domain name registry?

    11 votes
    1. [3]
      em-dash
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      Yes (nothing stops you from running a website without a domain name at all), but I don't think most people know the difference. This very article calls Namecheap a "provider of websites", which......

      Yes (nothing stops you from running a website without a domain name at all), but I don't think most people know the difference.

      This very article calls Namecheap a "provider of websites", which... doesn't mean anything. It might mean a web host in another context, but it's clear from the rest of the article that they don't actually know what a web host is.

      10 votes
      1. [2]
        slade
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        Like the yellow pages is a provider of phones. (I'm dating myself)

        Like the yellow pages is a provider of phones. (I'm dating myself)

        4 votes
        1. ebonGavia
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          If the yellow pages provide the phones, what are the white pages for?

          If the yellow pages provide the phones, what are the white pages for?

          2 votes
  3. Sunkiller
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    Certainly an interesting headline

    Certainly an interesting headline

    2 votes