The Lockdown procedure that openSRS will be implementing (eta?),
should prevent interRegistrar hanky panky. (It is crazy that Icann allowed
this to happen in the first place.)
swerve
> From: "Quantum Radio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Quantum Radio
> Reply-To: "Quantum Radio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:15:53 +1000
> To: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "opensrs-discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Subject: Adobe's DNS record in Network Solutions' database
>
> Ar ha.
>
> Fortunatly Chinese is my second language - so why didn't I think of the
> characters?? [embarresment]
>
> I switched to Chinese Mode, and there it was ��ѡ�� 000000 . In Chinese -
> Qing xuanze - "Please select 000000"
> In itself somewhat meaningless. Like saying "Please call extention 000000"
> Which it's not by the way. It is actually saying "Please select 000000"
>
> So - :-)
>
> Maybe someone better tell Adobe?
>
> Pity I didn't copy the first screen. When I first looked, it had all Chinese
> phone numbers, and addresses in Xiamen, a Special Economic Zone.
> Now at least it's back to US numbers - or is that Canada. no, US. 1-408- is
> US I think.
>
> Whatever - it's a bit unsettling to know that anyone and everyone can make
> those sort of changes - apparently?
>
> bc
>
>> Hello Quantum,
>>
>> Thursday, October 19, 2000, 12:29:52 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> I would suggest that there is actually a probelm with the database
> itself -
>>> rather than hijacking.
>>
>>> This is not _quite_ the data that the request returned half an hour ago.
>>
>>> Rather than jumping up and down with glee, perhaps someone should
> actually
>>> be trying to solve an obvious problem?
>>> You will notice the non-asci characters appearing there.
>>
>>> database corruption - which will affect everyone in the world
> eventually!
>>
>> No, not quite. The characters are the result of the data being stored
>> in Chinese by a Chinese registrar, who clearly did not have
>> appropriate security for inter-registrar transfers.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>
>
