Apparently some pranksters hijacked Comcast's DNS entries for a few hours:
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Comcast-domain-diverted-by-crackers--/news/110831 [Hat tip to Bill Squier for pointing the article out.] This is hardly the first time such a thing has happened. No great harm was done, but considerable harm could have been done. For example, one wonders what would happen if bank like Chase that foolishly trains their users to type passwords into non-https protected pages had their DNS hijacked for a while. (Indeed, given the fact that most users always ignore certificate warnings, even a pretty good bank that consistently used https would have serious trouble.) Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
