NXDOMAIN signs (was VeriSign Capitulates)

2003-10-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
We could almost pretend it was because of the NXDOMAIN signs that got plastered on their HQ :) From http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/01/212231mode=nocommenttid=126tid=15 wednesday: Verisign seems to have issues

Re: ICANN - Formal Complaint re Verisign

2003-09-18 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:42:19AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you can get SSL certs from alternative sources such as GeoTrust http://www.geotrust.com/ Bzzz, geotrust is Verisign http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclientie=utf-8oe=utf-8q=Thawte+was+b ought+by+Verisign Marc --

Re: ICANN - Formal Complaint re Verisign

2003-09-18 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Dominic J. Eidson wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:42:19AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you can get SSL certs from alternative sources such as GeoTrust http://www.geotrust.com/ Bzzz

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:27:10AM +1000, Terence Giufre-Sweetser wrote: Now there's a good idea, and it works, I have several sites running a port 25 trap to stop smtp abuse. To stop port 25 abuse at some schools, the firewall grabs all outgoing port 25 connections from !the mail server,

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-06 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:13:34AM -0400, Mike Joseph wrote: The major problem I see with this is the need to verify that the spamvertised site actually requested or paid for the spam. After all, what's to prevent me from spamming in the name of xyz.com just so I can see them shutdown?