[149407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Feb 3 10:31:56 2012
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:31:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Wheeler" <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So what part of VRSN got broken into? They do a lot more than just
> > DNS.
>
> Indeed, VeriSign owns Illuminet, who are mission-critical for POTS.
> Illuminet is also in the business of recording telephone calls, SMS
> messages, etc. for law enforcement.
"Illuminet"?
Shea and Wilson would be proud.
Cheers,
-- jr 'and somewhere, an evil geek is dry-washing his hands' a
--
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