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F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the internet-laughs-at-f-secure dept.

Rajesh writes "According to F-Secure, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers, should introduce a .safe domain name to be used by registered banks and other financial organizations."

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  1. As a matter of principle... by rlthomps-1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just don't trust anything that comes out and says "trust me, I'm safe." This isn't a good idea, it teaches people to let their guard down as opposed to being aware of the risks of blanketly trusting a website. What if someone gets some exploit code on one of these sites? I think it'll just take a few notable hacked up website before the whole trust of .safe is lost.

  2. Because you know by dctoastman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People are infallible and immune from social engineering attacks and there is no way a shady organization would ever get a .safe domain.

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  3. Countdown... by Yoozer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Count down to the first case where a .safe domain is corrupted because of nepotism, fraud, forgery, what-have-you.

    A TLD does not solve this problem. An alert user does, aided by tools like regular check-ups, challenge-response systems or cryptography.

    We've all heard how some corporations lose several thousands of records of personal data. What does that .safe TLD mean, in that case?

  4. Re:Maybe its just me.. by smallfries · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly, how many people would pay for an .unsafe tld?

    So once 95% of all websites decide that they want to be safe, how do organise the namespace? How about .com.safe, .gov.safe, .net.safe....

    Then all we do is turn off the .unsafe domain and we're done!

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  5. Re:Maybe its just me.. by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed. We should also create a .terror domain--it'd help make tracking down those evil evil terra-ists that much easier...

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