>>> So have the security implications of these new domain names really >>> been thought through? >> Of course not. Security is an afterthought. Making money for the >> infrastructure companies comes first.
(In passing, something in your email software is mangling quotes; it replaced two ordinary spaces with non-break spaces. I changed them back in the quote above.) >> It's been a long time since Internet governance had anything to do >> with governing well (as opposed to profitably). > Oh, come off it. There are reasons to make changes to networks other > than security. It's a genuine, non-corrupt reasonable demand that > you should be able to have your own language in DNS. Certainly. All I'm saying is that (I believe) the cha-ching overrode any impluse there may have been toward giving the security concerns anything like the thought they need. (Not that this is surprising; if security were important enough to them for them to have done that, they would have done various other highly visible things first.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
