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[ PRIVACY Forum ] ".secure" TLD proposed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Fri May 11 14:26:46 2012

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".secure" TLD proposed

http://j.mp/Ku8Cau  (Wired)

   "A security researcher has won investments of more than $9 million to
    incorporate a tightly policed section of the Internet reserved for
    banks, healthcare providers, and other groups that are regularly
    targeted in malware, phishing, and similar online attacks."

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Describing the many reasons why this idea is fundamentally flawed will
be left as an exercise for the reader -- for now.

--Lauren--
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Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org 
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