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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
From: David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:58:16 -0700
On Jun 28, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Jeroen Massar wrote:thinking of all the nice security issues which come along (home, mycomputerand .exe etc anyone ? :).exe has the same security properties as .comnot exactly, as a lot of users know that there is something like a .com domain. they will expect something else from .exe
I'm not sure I understand the security threat here. Is the theory that someone will click on "foo.exe" and the fact that it is a URL is somehow worse than if it is an actual executable? If that's not it, can someone explain (small words, with subtitles -- I'm not a security geek).
Thanks, -drc
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