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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. Get some PRIORITIES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred over a year ago, followed by a Holy War against Islam, and now Israel and the Palestinians as well as India and Pakistan are teetering on the brink of their own war, Argentina is in the midst of a financial crisis, America is considering launching attacks against Somalia and Iraq, and you people have the gall to be discussing Verisign and .gov domains???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!

    The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about .gov domains, Verisign, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!

    You people disgust me!

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

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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

  5. 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!

  6. 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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