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by hw_penfold 2861 days ago
In many ways this is malicious deception. In any instance where a login form is included in the scraped mirror, that represents an attacked user, and a phishing attempt.

If someone did this in the wild, in an uncontrolled situation involving random strangers, it risks serious misinterpretation, and worse.

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> I had this implemented for a very brief period of time (and for ethical reasons took it down almost immediately, realising that this may cause trouble)

The author did this in the wild, involving random strangers.