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US .gov WHOIS Info Restricted Over Attacker Fears

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the paranoia-strikes-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VeriSign Inc has stopped providing access to information about the .gov internet domain, which is restricted to US government bodies, over concerns the data could be used in planning internet attacks."

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  1. drugs by quigonn · · Score: 0, Troll

    The people at VeriSign should stop smoking so much pot and crack.

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  2. Re:Are they going to... by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 2, Troll


    Not much point hiding the whois information of a domain if its accompanying website tells the whole world who and where they are...

    Generally the contents of a website don't list the DNS servers for that domain. Verisign has restricted access to .gov whois records in order to protect government DNS servers from denial-of-service attacks. Please read the article next time, even if it is poorly written.

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  3. I am not in front of my mac right now... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 1, Troll
    however IIRC, when you do a whois for apple.com using the nettool (the program under utillities) in os X, it returns
    "apple.is.the.choice.for.every.self.respecing.te rrorist.com"

    At least it worked in 10.1

  4. Re:Well by FrostedWheat · · Score: 0, Troll

    you are an idiot.

    Yep, but at least I'm not an anonymous idiot :)

    Be proud of your idiotness!

  5. Re:If you want to participare in a public network. by SacredNaCl · · Score: 0, Troll

    YAY! This is great! Now all all of the spam will come from NASA.GOV, IRS.GOV, WHITEHOUSE.GOV, FBI.GOV...and we wont have a contact to them to fix their mail server. Groovy. Progress at every level.

    I find the governments arguement less than compelling.

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