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wtg
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For over 10 years, millions of emails associated with the US military have been getting sent to Mali, a West African country allied with Russia, due to a typo, according to a report from the Financial Times. Instead of appending the military’s .MIL domain to their recipient’s email address, people frequently type .ML, the country identifier for Mali, by mistake.


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OMG. Ugh.


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That reminds me of how many websites are maintained to intercept web log-ins where the web address is misspelled.

I recently encountered one when I mistyped a web address for a medical system I deal with. It was only because I noticed a slight difference from the site I had expected to arrive at that I did not enter my log-in information. It was otherwise very deceptive.

Big Al


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