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Another Article on Verisigns
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:55:27 -0400
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:39:45 -0400 From: Alex Salkever <alex_salkever () businessweek com> Subject: Another Article To: dave <dave () farber net>This article I wrote looks at the general hypocrisy of blaming Verisign for doing something others already do with impunity. Not that Verisign is blameless, as I write in the piece -- they ran roughshod over the basic communitarian ethos of the Internet in other ways. But we should think about what we are blaming them for, which are the right reasons and which are the wrong ones.<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc2003107_3789_tc047.htm>http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc2003107_3789_tc047.htm Verisign Didn't Deserve This SpankingThe giant recorder of Web addresses sure sparked a fire when it redirected site-not-found messages to its own search engine. It's a bum rap-- Alex Salkever Technology Editor 212-512-3582
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