>Hi all, >Never know about trusting blogs, but this was sent out by historian Carolyn >Baker. There are many links in the story - have to go to the URL to make >connections. > > >http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstor >y%2F2007%2F3%2F31%2F1828%2F16663 > >DHS demand for DNS master key alarms nations >by Deep Harm >Sat Mar 31, 2007 at 04:03:53 PM PDT > >Slashdot and Cryptome report that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security >(DHS) is demanding the master key for the DNS root zone (see >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System for explanation) - a >demand that has other nations alarmed. With the master key, DHS would >have control over the Internet, as Slashdot describes, quoting an >"anonymous reader." > > The key will play an important role in the new DNSSec security >extension, because it will make spoofing IP-addresses impossible. By >forcing the IANA [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority] to hand out a copy >of the master key, the US government will be the only institution that is >able to spoof IP addresses and be able to break into computers connected to >the Internet without much effort. > >The issue arose at Friday's meeting of the Internet Corporation for >Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Lisbon, Portugal. > > * Deep Harm's diary :: :: > >There is no indication yet that U.S. mainstream news media have reported on >the DHS proposal. U.S. coverage of the ICANN meeting focused (predictably) >on a proposal to create a domain specifically for adult websites. Cryptome >cites a German news source, Heisse Online, which provides the following >information. > > The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...wants to have the key >to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government. This >ultimate master key would then allow authorities to track DNS Security >Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name >system's root zone on the Internet. The "key-signing key" signs the zone >key, which is held by VeriSign. At the meeting of the Internet Corporation >for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Lisbon, Bernard Turcotte, >president of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) drew >everyone's attention to this proposal as a representative of the national >top-level domain registries (ccTLDs). > > At the ICANN meeting, Turcotte said that the managers of country >registries were concerned about this proposal. When contacted by heise >online, Turcotte said that the national registries had informed their >governmental representatives about the DHS's plans. A representative of the >EU Commission said that the matter is being discussed with EU member >states. DNSSec is seen as a necessary measure to keep the growing number of >manipulations on the net under control. The DHS is itself sponsoring a >campaign to support the implementation of DNSSec. Three of the 13 operators >currently work outside of the US, two of them in Europe. Lars-Johan Liman >of the Swedish firm Autonomica, which operates the I root server, pointed >out the possible political implications last year. Liman himself nominated >ICANN as a possible candidate for the supervisory function. > >When other nations are worried, Americans, too, should be concerned. The >Bush administration has demonstrated that it is unable to wield power >responsibly. Therefore, its demand for Internet control should be viewed as >an opportunity to abuse its authority to control a medium that has played a >critical role in holding it accountable. > > >------ End of Forwarded Message > >-- >Sue Supriano: Steppin' Out of Babylon - Radio Interviews >http://www.suesupriano.com >------------------------------------------------ >"In Germany first they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak >up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I >didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade >unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. >Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I >was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was >left to speak up." -- Pastor Martin Niemoller
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