DNS Hijacking by Cox

Mon Jul 23 13:56:34 UTC 2007

Once upon a time, Steven M. Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> said:
> Several people have email me privately to disagree with my statement
> about DNSSEC, on various grounds.  I stand by my statement, but I am
> making a fair number of assumptions, some perhaps invalid.  Let me be
> less terse.

Okay, so instead of changing the DNS record, they snoop it and redirect
the IPs.  What have you gained?  How many IRC servers (especially those
used by the botnets) use SSL, and how many clients validate the cert?
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.