A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking

Tue Feb 26 21:25:07 UTC 2019

> On 26 Feb 2019, at 21:58, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
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>> On Feb 26, 2019, at 8:12 AM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
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>> In article <CAD6AjGTBNZ8wTv6Y1KgTvNaW6Zi87RLprQK2Lg=d0evK8ot7=g at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>>> Swapping the DNS cabal for the CA cabal is not an improvement. Right?  They
>>> are really the same arbitraging rent-seekers, just different layers.
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>> The models are different.  If I want to compromise your DNS I need to
>> attack your specific registrar.  If I want a bogus cert, any of the
>> thousand CAs in my browser will do.
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> Exactly.  And if you’re an organization that has money and pays attention to DNS and security, you can get yourself a TLD, and be your own registry, at which point you only need to worry about the security of the root zone.

Interesting. 
Never thought of new TLD from this angle :)

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Nico  