[Noisebridge-discuss] FBI-run DNS servers are about to be shut down

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> there is something obviously left out of this story, can anyone tell us
> what it is?

Servers cost money to run.

This seems like a kind thing to have done for infected users who need
to fix up their machines, lest they lose connectivity.

However, most of the eyeballs don't even know there's a problem when
DNS "just works" with these benevolently-operated recursors. Perhaps
if some big web site that was willing to take a traffic hit (google,
yahoo, nytimes, etc.), this clean-up operation could have MITMed users
to show them a message about their infection.