Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota

jgreco writes "A judge in North Dakota has just ruled that requesting a zone transfer from a public DNS server is criminal activity within the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crimes Law. A zone transfer is a simple request that a DNS server hand over information in bulk, and a DNS server may be configured to allow or deny such requests. That the owner of a DNS server would configure the server to allow such requests, and then claim such requests were unauthorized, is simply stunning."

Comments

beware

[ratonu]

So now there is a good chance i can go buy some adwords and advertise my website and then sue anyone who will access it... A good business model.

Oops

[slarrg]

I didn't mean for anyone to read this post on the internet. So it illegal.

Re:Oops

[mulvane]

Damn YOU!!!!

I try to be a somewhat law abiding citizen. Thanks for my first criminal act of the day I didn't even mean to commit.

How would he obtain permission to access it?

[Rogerborg]

He can't email them, because clearly that's zomg h4xx0rz1ng their email server.

an old proverb

[tylersaurus]

Those who can: write code. Those who can't: write laws.

Can you imagine if every politician in the house and senate knew how to program? Granted a good portion of them would still be writing awful spaghetti code... but for the most part at least they would not be able to compile it.

Re:consequence of bad computer crime laws

[kalirion]

Be glad he didn't tase you, bro.

Re:Unbelievable

[Crazy_CorranH]

So if you're in North Dakota and you're reading this, you better run for them thar boondocks, boy. We're coming to git you!

Well, coming from ND, I'd have to say it's all boondocks. Where should I run to now?

Re:consequence of bad computer crime laws

[ehrichweiss]

You must have missed some of the stranger court cases recently. Like the woman who put up the website that she didn't want any web spiders to crawl so she put up a text message that said "web spiders are forbidden" instead of a robots.txt that would actually do something. Google indexed it and she sued.

Re:consequence of bad computer crime laws

[jvkjvk]

Of course, to not properly close your tags or preview foolish!

Re:DNS illegal now? Read again.

[sammy baby]

What's absolutely hilarious about this are the number of replies to this article complaining about "clueless" Judges who "don't understand the issues" and aren't prepared to "read the evidence" right in front of them. Uh-hum. Because all you guys did, right?

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Re:Unbelievable

[dekemoose]

if I make a bad analogy but it makes sense to me, is it still a bad analogy?

Re:Unbelievable

[JakusMinimus]

If I pose a stupid rhetorical question, but it makes me chuckle and/or snicker, is it still a stupid rhetorical question?

Re:Unbelievable

[Sczi]

These analogies are completely over my head. Are you or are you not giving out free fajitas and beer?

Port 53 rebel from hell

[rs79]

You know back in the 80s people on usenet notiuced that there were no uucp connections going into North Dakota and therefore Noth Dakota didn't actually exist. Now I think I know why there were no uucp connections going into North Dakota.

I hear the ladies love a Bad Boy. I just did a zone transfer from a North Dakota nameserver. I am SUCH a rebel. Come get me, biotches.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to tear the labels off some mattresses and jaywalk. I be bad, yeah I be bad.

Re:A human analogy

[danzona]

Texans always have a shotgun handy. That is what makes us Texans.