[62324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP issues with .com/.net change?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Sep 17 14:43:48 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:41:13 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Alex Kamantauskas <alexk@tugger.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0309171414060.14276-100000@orfeo.appliedtheory.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Alex Kamantauskas wrote:
>
> Not really operational content, but I was wondering if there was an
> intellectual property issue with the Verisign .com/.net redirect?
>
Not sure about IP, but there are privacy issues. Verisign has
intentionally redirected all email that was mistyped on the recipient to
their server. Instead of immediately rejecting and terminating the
connection, they allow the send to issue 3 commands, which would
typically give them the sender and rcpt information where previously the
information would not leave the originating mail server. How could
this be construed as anything but address harvesting and a breach of
privacy?
In addition, at no point has Verisign obtained permission to steal
information in this way. They are eavesdropping! Every time I've
checked, port 80 was down on the destination IP, but 25 was running full
speed. It makes me wonder if their real intent wasn't to collect that
information to begin with.
-Jack
