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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:07:11 -0400
From: David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (OT) Re: Sunset for sunrise
At 03:09 AM 5/15/00 -0400, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
>Well - simply put ICANN runs 13 root servers. All of those root servers
>are very vulnerable to attack. DNS is by default a very insecure
>protocol, easily hacked. Also, there has never been a DDOS against the 13
>roots. If a DDOS is ever launched against the ICANN roots then I gurantee
>you that alot of people will not be surfing for a few days.
The DNS protocol itself, not just the machines, is succeptible to attacks,
there was that alter.net russian who got the FBI after him (he was in
Canada at the time) after diddling with the DNS.
