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DHS Wants Master Key for DNS

An anonymous reader writes "At an ICANN meeting in Lisbon, the US Department of Homeland Security made it clear that it has requested the master key for the DNS root zone. The key will play an important role in the new DNSSec security extension, because it will make spoofing IP-addresses impossible. By forcing the IANA to hand out a copy of the master key, the US government will be the only institution that is able to spoof IP addresses and be able to break into computers connected to the Internet without much effort. There's a further complication, of course, because even 'if the IANA retains the key ... the US government still reserves the right to oversee ICANN/IANA. If the keys are then handed over to ICANN/IANA, there would be even less of an incentive [for the U.S.] to give up this role as a monitor. As a result, the DHS's demands will probably only heat up the debate about US dominance of the control of Internet resources.'"

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  1. Re:DNSSec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's the JEWS, stupid...
    The JEWS want control of the internet because they have to censor the TRUTH about them, they have to stop their 'cattle' (goyim) from speaking out against them...

    www.codoh.org
    www.davidduke.org

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=445754&in_page_id=1770

    Still, they will just use the 'get out of jail free' Holycause card to push this through even more... After all, the 'cattle' are no longer for the Jews' bullshit media, which they almost exclusively control, and people are starting to question them more and more...

    No war for Israel!

  2. Actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Me and most of my friends hate David Hasslehoff. You could say Americans love Hasslehoff since you like watching his naked body on Baywatch so much (American TV show, no?)