DNS Changer items
David Conrad
drc at virtualized.org
Thu Aug 16 05:54:46 UTC 2012
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> Approx 2 months later after taking legal advice, the NCC formed the view
> that the police and the prosecutor had no legal basis for making the
> request and they consequently unlocked the objects.
With the end result that someone gets some really nicely tainted/blocked address space. Hopefully whoever it is wears a white hat and doesn't respond to unsuspecting people's DNS queries with 'interesting' values.
"Legal basis": IANAL so no comment.
However, for network sanitation purposes, I'll admit some surprise that the DNSchanger blocks have been reused so quickly.
Regards,
-drc
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