I thought this was a funny April Fool’s Day prank:
A few nights ago I layed the ground work for my prank. I told her the government has been cracking down on gambling sites and taking them off-line. She said she wasn’t worried because POGO was just games and not really gambling. I reminded her that she pays for the site and that “technically” it’s gambling because of this and the fact you enter a lottery style drawing to win the big prize.
This morning I setup a fake POGO page exclaiming how they are sorry, but due to the department of justice new regulations and the new wire act (I linked these sites on the site I created) pogo is now off-line. I then changed her bookmark to the redirected page.
So here’s the challenge:
How many different technical ways can we achieve the same result given that we cannot physically change the bookmark?
Here’s an example:
If the computer was password protected, by changing the DNS resolution we could redirect the person to our spoofed page without changing the bookmark.
Use the comments to answer…
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It depends on the network connection. A spoofed SSID could be used to hijack the connection and route the DNS to one’s server of choice.
Change the DNS settings at your home router to point to a rogue DNS server that you can set up with ease. That way you need not touch the computer settings at all.