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Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role]
From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists () spacething org>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:29:27 +0100
Joseph S D Yao wrote:
Maybe it would make sense for someone to reiterate what types of abuse DNS is facilitating? I believe what Gadi was getting at was mainly the ability to use fake details to register a domain, and then very rapidly cycling the A records through a wide range of hosts, attempting to avoid detection. As opposed to there actually being fundamental flaws open to abuse in a system that maps names to IP addresses.On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:56:00PM -0500, Gadi Evron wrote: ...I just posted this, and I believe it makes sense: Title: Put Security Alongside .XXX Isn't security as important to discuss as .XSS? The DNS has become an abuse infrastructure, it is no longer just a functional infrastructure. It is not being used by malware, phishing and other Bad Things [TM], it facilitates them.Again - DNS is the infrastructure for EVERYTHING. It facilitates EVERYTHING. If you threw it out and put something else in that was not as clunky as editing hosts.txt files 'scp'ed from DARPA daily, then THAT would be what was facilitating everything.
Sam
Current thread:
- Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Fergie (Apr 02)
- summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Gadi Evron (Apr 02)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joseph S D Yao (Apr 03)
- RE: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] michael.dillon (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joseph S D Yao (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Sam Stickland (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joseph S D Yao (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Douglas Otis (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joe Greco (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Daniel Senie (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joe Greco (Apr 03)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Dorn Hetzel (Apr 04)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joseph S D Yao (Apr 04)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joe Greco (Apr 04)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joseph S D Yao (Apr 04)
- Re: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Joseph S D Yao (Apr 03)
- summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] Gadi Evron (Apr 02)
- RE: summarising [was: Re: ICANNs role] michael.dillon (Apr 04)