[155565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Changer items
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Aug 16 01:55:40 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <502C37F2.6060508@foobar.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:54:46 -0600
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> Approx 2 months later after taking legal advice, the NCC formed the =
view
> that the police and the prosecutor had no legal basis for making the
> request and they consequently unlocked the objects.
With the end result that someone gets some really nicely tainted/blocked =
address space. Hopefully whoever it is wears a white hat and doesn't =
respond to unsuspecting people's DNS queries with 'interesting' values.
"Legal basis": IANAL so no comment.
However, for network sanitation purposes, I'll admit some surprise that =
the DNSchanger blocks have been reused so quickly.
Regards,
-drc
