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

[Jake]

I dunno, i think that if the FBI had been trying to ensnare more "hackers" 
they would logically set up their own DNS to keep the game running so the 
jig wouldn't be up.

But after the perps were all caught and locked up, why wouldn't they 
immediately error out every computer they were serving DNS to, saying 
"sorry dude, your computer has a virus.  Install linux or just give up."

I think it's weird and suspicious that they've been serving DNS for so 
long to people with an active virus infestation.

And if i were doing that, I would be collecting lots of juicy data on 
those users, and maybe having a little fun with them, wouldn't you?

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Jonathan Lassoff 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.
>