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by vbrandl 1991 days ago
More often than you'd think. There's a paper from black hat 2011 [0] where bit flips and domains with a small hamming distance were used. Take google.com and woogle.com which in their ASCII representation only differ by one bit. The paper showed that these domains will receive traffic for their intended counterparts because of bit flips in the RAM in DNS servers.

[0]: https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabu...