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Actually, existing DNS can be very insecure...
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Secure DNS a Hard Sell
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... even at very well managed sites. This recent paper from Cornell lays out some of the problem, showing how even the www.fbi.gov name can be hijacked by hacking in to seemingly completely unrelated servers, such as one of the name servers at telemail.net.
So for example, to hijack www.hsbc.com, you don't have to worry just about hsbc's name servers, com's name servers, and the root name servers. You also have to worry about the other servers that hsbc and com have deligated to, and the servers that they have deligated to, and on and on.
[ Incidentally, it is amazing, simply amazing, that the entire population of slashdot was just duped into filling out, at great length and with surprising honesty and detail, a marketing habits survey that will immediately be devoured by whichever clever marketing company thought up this little experiment. Ok, well, maybe its not amazing, just sad, further proof of slashdot's decline. ]
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Slashdot summary: 42 articles compared, but Oh! Wiki is 2.6 times longer on average.
TFA (first paragraph on the page): 50 articles compared, and articles selected with very similar lengths, and some material removed (e.g. references) if necessary to make them same lengths.
So for example, to hijack www.hsbc.com, you don't have to worry just about hsbc's name servers, com's name servers, and the root name servers. You also have to worry about the other servers that hsbc and com have deligated to, and the servers that they have deligated to, and on and on.
Dear DoubleClick Survey Group,
I'd rather not respond to your marketing survey.
Love
-hkhito
[ Incidentally, it is amazing, simply amazing, that the entire population of slashdot was just duped into filling out, at great length and with surprising honesty and detail, a marketing habits survey that will immediately be devoured by whichever clever marketing company thought up this little experiment. Ok, well, maybe its not amazing, just sad, further proof of slashdot's decline. ]
Ya, tha'd be crazy! It'd be like paying $50/mo service contract with... that... um... free... cell phone. Nevermind.