“Forbes Time Capsule” And Outsourcing

BoingBoing reported: “Forbes has a free service that lets you send an email to yourself and have it arrive in 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20 years.”

The site looks like Forbes site because it has same template of text and images as is available in Forbes.

However the URL to the site is forbes.codefix.net/capsule/


Can you imagine Forbes actually hosting their pages on the site of codefix.net? It appears to be a small company.

My initial reaction was that BoingBoing got duped by a hoax site. Closer inspection revealed something very interesting.

On Forbes home page there is a link to https://www.forbes.com/capsule/
This link (on fetched) issues a 302 HTTP directive (temporary redirection) to point to https://forbes.codefix.net/capsule/

So in essence this is a legitimate site (unless Forbes website has been hacked which I doubt). Forbes has apparently decided to outsource managing his “Time Capsule” data to codefix.net. With online phishing scams as rampant as it is I would have expected Forbes to at least host the pages on its own domains. Even something like timecapsule.forbes.com would have been better. And then the sub-domain could actually have pointed to codefix site.