[170789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Serious bug in ubiquitous OpenSSL library: "Heartbleed"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Apr 9 11:59:57 2014
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 17:59:31 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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In-Reply-To: <53456C6B.8030002@flowtools.net>
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* jschiel@flowtools.net (Me) [Wed 09 Apr 2014, 17:51 CEST]:
>On 04/09/2014 09:39 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>>* jschiel@flowtools.net (Me) [Wed 09 Apr 2014, 17:26 CEST]:
>>
>>>Sending someone to a site with obscure TLDs of .io or .lv
>>>doesn't help in these situations. This is a perfect opportunity
>>>for someone to set up a drive by site to drop malware on
>>>someone's computer.
>>
>>Yes, because obviously .com registrations are limited to good
>>people only. *eyeroll*
>
>Guess you didn't read my last sentence, I know the .coms and .orgs, and
>such don't all belong to the good folks.
>
>*sigh*.
Then why single out the .io and .lv's? Maybe you missed the trend (by
now a few years old) to get domains in those and similar ccTLD's for
startups? Why even try to portray them as less trusted, as you
plainly did in the quoted paragraph?
-- Niels.
