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Comcast Migrating Customers To DNSSEC Resolvers
ctg1701 passes along this quote from a Comcast announcement:
"Starting today we will begin migrating customers who have opted out of our Domain Helper service over to our production DNSSEC-validating servers. This will happen first in a selected part of our Virginia network, and will later expand to all markets in the following sixty days, at which point all of our customers who have opted out of Domain Helper will be migrated. After this has been completed, we will migrate the rest of our customers, which we anticipate will stretch into the early part of 2011."
What this means is that COMCST is now going to tell their customers that your only allowed to visit websites that have joined the system. They may be selling this as security, but make no mistake this is also a huge control system. I may have to cancel my service with them, when this happens. The simply fact is you may have some legimate website who choose willfully NOT to partake in such a control scheme. I may need to visit such a site and COMCST is going to essentially tell me I can't visit that site. No thanks, I don't need a big brother. I'm an adult and I can take care of my own computers and I don't need COMCST protecting me. I don't give a crap what they say, I alone should have the right to decide where I can and can't go on the internet, unless of course you don't believe in freedom. Just give me the fully open internet service I pay for ya dern COMCST Commies!!! Quit interferring with my traffic.
-Anonymous Coward (yeah right like they can't track you down by your ip the way the RIAA is racketering everybody)
Do the suck your cock everytime you post here on a comcast related article?
Seriously man get a fucking life.
You do work for Comcast, and you do hijack all my dns queries, so yeah you're a shill.
I tried to opt out of your dns tampering, but it never worked, and I tired of talking to your support. If you guys are actually rolling something out that prevents you from intercepting and forging my dns queries I'm all for it. It'll be the first honest thing I've seen comcast do since my account was sold to them almost a decade ago.
If I ever have another broadband option Kabletown is getting the boot.
Have a nice day- hopefully you'll find a job somewhere that doesn't rape people financially via government backed monopoly.
lolwut? you clearly dont even know how it works....a DOMAIN KEY IS CHECKED AGAINST COMCASTS RECORDS TO VERIFY THE WEB ADDRESS. if it doesnt resolve, then you get gangbanged by ads. why am i not surprised that even comcast doesnt know how comcast's service work.
they say it is often more relevant then the comment above, all we know is its called the Sig!
What unmitigated crap. Business like Comcast do not reform, they just lie more and hire shills. Shills are cheaper than actual customer service reps.
Comcast must have a pretty active presence here- modded to oblivion because I engaged their rep in a public forum.
so does calling me a troll make your statement more effective? no it does not. and its clear you dont know how comcasts dnssec works, otherwise you wouldnt sound like a sony fanboy on the defensive.
i am right. you are wrong. even comcast says thats how their dnssec works. now kindly stfu.
they say it is often more relevant then the comment above, all we know is its called the Sig!