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

[John Ellis]

That's what bothers me about this whole thing.

The FBI will visibly redirect an entire domain to their DNS for copyright
enforcement, but not tell people they are infected with malware and
silently run DNS for them.

-John

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> 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.
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