At 06:02 PM 3/24/99 -0500, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>At 05:44 PM 3/24/99 , John B. Reynolds wrote:
>>The old InterNIC site is still up (presumably maintained in case NSI is
>>forced to pull down the new one):  It's at http://198.41.0.5/ or
>>http://rs0.internic.net/.
>
>It actually looks like the site for the new registry
>home page, doesn't it?


Is the implication supposed to be that having the same "service" located at 
a different address is somehow equivalent to having no negative impact on 
the community?

How is the community supposed to have known where to look?

Security through obscurity is not an accepted security technique, but it is 
damn effective at disrupting operations.

d/


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