Re: [ga] Hijacking of old L root server address space announcements

["Joe Baptista" <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been warning people about this for years. Root server data is very
critical.  In the hands of the U.S. Government and ICANN the data is
dangerous, and in the hands of criminals - more so.

regards
joe baptista

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:07 AM, George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> There's an interesting story on Slashdot today:
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/19/1325214
>
> regarding entities masquerading as the old L root server. Presumably
> they have a malevolent purpose behind this, to redirect traffic
> intended for the real root servers for economic and/or criminal
> reasons.
>
> I would hope that someone at ICANN is looking at this, as it is
> potentially a large security issue.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
>



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