Re: IP issues with .com/.net change?

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

Alex Kamantauskas wrote:

>  Not really operational content, but I was wondering if there was an
>  intellectual property issue with the Verisign .com/.net redirect?

Not sure about IP, but there are privacy issues. Verisign has 
intentionally redirected all email that was mistyped on the recipient to 
their server. Instead of immediately rejecting and terminating the 
connection, they allow the send to issue 3 commands, which would 
typically give them the sender and rcpt information where previously the 
 information would not leave the originating mail server. How could 
this be construed as anything but address harvesting and a breach of 
privacy?

In addition, at no point has Verisign obtained permission to steal 
information in this way. They are eavesdropping! Every time I've 
checked, port 80 was down on the destination IP, but 25 was running full 
speed. It makes me wonder if their real intent wasn't to collect that 
information to begin with.


-Jack