Kaminsky Bug Options Include "Do Nothing," Says IETF

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 20, 2008 @09:46AM from the doing-stuff-is-overrated dept.

netbuzz writes "Meeting in Minneapolis this week, the Internet engineering community is debating whether to aggressively fashion and apply fixes for the so-called Kaminsky bug in the DNS discovered this summer, or to simply let its threat stand as motivation for all to move with greater speed toward DNSSEC, which is considered the best long-term security solution. Problem with the latter approach is that DNSSEC has been in the works for a decade already, no one is confident it will be universally embraced, and the Kaminsky flaw is causing real problems today.

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sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · 2008-11-20 10:00 · Score: -1, Troll

this is somewhere along the lines of not having a secure os and recommending everyone to use an antivirus, a firewall, antimalware and antiphishing.
as far as i understand IETF = Internet Explorer does anyone know what TF stands for?