PC Pro reported today on the findings of McAfee's recent research on typosquatting - the practice of setting up websites that use misspellings of popular websites and brands. The report found that more than 60 of the most typosquatted sites are targeted at children and more than 1100 are used to direct children to pornography.
McAfee Security Analyst Greg Day says that companies prey on a child's naivety. He explained: "The revenue for many typosquatter sites comes from clickthroughs. Children and teens are, to some degree, an easy target."
Although there is pressure in the United States to clamp down on typosquatting it represents a more disturbing trend and attitude in the industry. There are people out there - businesses and companies - who want to prey on our children in order to generate revenue. They don't care if a child is exposed to pornography and becomes an addict.
We must recognize that problems with pornography and children online do not stem from only "accidental" exposure, but persistent efforts by pornographers to use the anonymity of the Internet to illegally push their product to children. Can we really trust such such an industry to self-regulate?
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