About this policy

Pharming (not to be confused for farming) is not allowed.

Etymology

According to Wikipedia, Pharming is a cyberattack intended to redirect a website's traffic to another, fake site by installing a malicious progran on the victim's computer in order to gain access to it. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS server software. DNS servers are computerd respobdible for resolving Internet domain names into their IP address. Compromised DNS servers are sometimes referrd to as "poisoned". Pharming requires unprotected access to target a computer, such as altering a customer's home computer, rather than a corporate business server.

The term "pharming" is a neologism based on the words "farming" and "phishing". Phishing is a type of social engineering attack to obtain access credentials, such as usernames and passwords. In recent years, both pharming and phishing have been used to gain information for online identity theft. Pharming as become of major concern to businesses hosting e-commerce and online banking websites. Sophisticated meadures known as anti-pharming are required to protect this serious threat. Antivirus software and spyware removal cannot protect against pharming.

What happens if the content violates this policy

If your content violates the Pharming policy, we will suspend your access on both YouTube and Discord.