[105652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sat Jun 28 08:58:22 2008
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] <r.bhatia@ipax.at>
In-Reply-To: <48661E2D.60207@ipax.at>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:58:16 -0700
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 28, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:
> Tony Finch wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>>> thinking of all the nice security issues which come along (home,
>>> mycomputer
>>> and .exe etc anyone ? :)
>>
>> .exe has the same security properties as .com
>
> not exactly, as a lot of users know that there is something like a
> .com domain. they will expect something else from .exe
I'm not sure I understand the security threat here. Is the theory
that someone will click on "foo.exe" and the fact that it is a URL is
somehow worse than if it is an actual executable? If that's not it,
can someone explain (small words, with subtitles -- I'm not a security
geek).
Thanks,
-drc
