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'Clone Zone' Is an Easy Tool for Building Fake Websites

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Clone Zone is also a chain of gay sex shops in England. A true lesson in Googling your potential project name before settling on it.

Not as bad as Stormfront. Not the white nationalist neo-nazi organisation, but the Apple reseller.

Unrelated, but funny http://www.reddit.com/r/stormfrontorsjw sometimes... it's really hard.

It's also a PowerPuff Girls game: http://powerpuff.wikia.com/wiki/Mojo_Jojo_Clone_Zone

Meanwhile Drone Zone is an Internet Radio station operated by Soma FM. http://somafm.com/dronezone/ It's also an aerial photography group. http://dronezone.club/ Phone Zone is a store in Jamestown, NY. http://www.phonezoneshop.com/ Unless it's Fone Zone, which is in Australia. http://www.fonezone.com.au/

rhymes are fun.

There's also apparently a popular cannabis distributor in Washington state with the name.

Perhaps they were looking for free SEO?

what's wrong w gay sex shops? we thought it was actually a good fit :)

I think this thing is awesome. The amount of gullibility online / Facebook is insane, and this will either increase it, or teach people to be incredibly more skeptical. I'm hoping the latter.

Here's one I made in 5 minutes: http://www.nytimes.com.clonezone.link/apple_watch_drone_stri...

Is this going to be included on a DVD in a new book: Phishing Campaigns for Dummies?

I dont understand what this is for. Chrome can save the page, include all the images

Does chrome automatically upload it to a place and provide inline editability so you can share it?

Developer Tools is pretty good. All what's left is uploading it to a place.

So, the primary function that makes Clone Zone worthwile to non-programmers is missing in Developer Tools?

Yup, the entire project is a failure... /s

Does Chrome automatically allow the comments section of a copied page to work?

(Does that even work in Clone Zone?)

What happens when this is used to clone a bank website for nefarious purposes?

The service breaks if you input itself (clonezone.link) or the creator's site (4real.io). Seems reasonable to assume that it ignores javascript, which excludes a fair amount of modern webpages.

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