Serious bug in ubiquitous OpenSSL library: "Heartbleed"

Wed Apr 9 15:59:31 UTC 2014

* jschiel at flowtools.net (Me) [Wed 09 Apr 2014, 17:51 CEST]:
>On 04/09/2014 09:39 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>>* jschiel at flowtools.net (Me) [Wed 09 Apr 2014, 17:26 CEST]:
>>
>>>Sending someone to a site with obscure TLDs of .io or .lv 
>>>doesn't help in these situations. This is a perfect opportunity 
>>>for someone to set up a drive by site to drop malware on 
>>>someone's computer.
>>
>>Yes, because obviously .com registrations are limited to good 
>>people only. *eyeroll*
>
>Guess you didn't read my last sentence, I know the .coms and .orgs, and
>such don't all belong to the good folks.
>
>*sigh*.

Then why single out the .io and .lv's?  Maybe you missed the trend (by 
now a few years old) to get domains in those and similar ccTLD's for 
startups?  Why even try to portray them as less trusted, as you 
plainly did in the quoted paragraph?

	-- Niels.