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[ga] Number of Rogue DNS Servers on the Rise. Is IAB/IANA/IETF partly responsible for spreading malware/spyware?

  • To: Ga <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Dengate Thrush <barrister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, aheineman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: [ga] Number of Rogue DNS Servers on the Rise. Is IAB/IANA/IETF partly responsible for spreading malware/spyware?
  • From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:14:01 -0800

All,

  Where is ICANN or the IANA/IETF on all this?  Hiding of course,
and seeking a new hiding place in Geneva I suspect!  And for good
reason I suspect.  Seems that ICANN organs, the IANA, the IETF
and the IAB are at least partly responsible for spreading malware
and spyware.
See:
http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=iana.org&token=05c0ad82e4a73b5105f1918231a91019

http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=IETF.org&token=050033643ca43e0c070176893679c019

http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=iab.org&token=054064e441d339920ae1208739999019

  Does this reflect a responsible organization or organizational
leadership, i.e. ICANN? Doesn't seem so...  It does strongly indicate 
that ICANN, the IETF, IAB, and the IANA badly need strong adult 
supervision, ergo the supervision of stakeholders/users
and especially independent registrants and ISP's/IAP's.  Yet the ICANN
Board seemingly is blind to it's own, other very significant
shortcomings.
See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/25/1433207&tid=95
 http://www.physorg.com/news122304766.html
Such denials are horribly inconsistent with documented fact.
And as the article below indicates clearly ICANN and it's organs,
the IANA, the IETF, and the IAB are setting a very bad example
and perhaps a very dangerous one to boot!

Further:
Rogue DNS servers are an
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifrgeDBfUGAvXtLH_vgVrKcm0s_wD8UPLR8O1
increasingly popular tool for scam artists, according to a new report.
Their numbers are on the rise, in part because they're difficult for
antivirus software to deal with. 'There are now approximately 68,000
rogue DNS servers across the Internet, The authenticity of the sites 
such servers redirect to varies greatly, from near-perfect copies to 
laughably bad, but the problem they represent is quite serious. Once 
an end user's computer has been modified to use a poisoned DNS server, 
the system can be directed to any fake web site the malware author 
feels like serving up.'

Regards, 

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