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Chinese Alternate Root as a New Beginning and Real Internet Governance

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 2:36 pm PST — by Gadi Evron
  Naming with a different term for the purpose of lowering the significance is not new to me, as we face it every world in the information security world with the disclosure of vulnerabilities. Call it what you like… a vulnerability,…

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 11:49 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  I did, it was actually posted 30 minutes before mine. :) You should read the comments. Brett Watson has the right of it. Let's not waste time on definitions. They may not be taking over .com, but they can. Point…

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 2:40 pm PST — by Gadi Evron
  Okay, I'm game. Let's invent a new name for this than. I am used to that. Spam, Spit, Spim, Phishing, Pharming… Alternate root.. erm.. uhm.. maybe "Supplamental Root" or "Alternate Languages Root Adaptation"?

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 11:47 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  Brett Watson has the right of it. Let's not waste time on definitions. They may not be taking over .com, but they can. Point is, even if they don't - they control the system and provide with ccTLD's and domain…

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 4:00 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  Which is still an alternate root. :) No one is saying China is messing with .com, etc., at least not yet. What I said in my text is that China has an alternate root and has indeed been sending most…

Net Neutrality Is As Silly As So-Called Internet Governance

• Comment posted Jul 06, 2006 1:36 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  I should probably note that what I attack is the legislation by the telco's rather than Net Neutrality itself as a concept, which I am in favor of.

Why Senator Stevens is Right on Net Neutrality

• Comment posted Jul 07, 2006 1:41 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  John, if we are to stray from the subject for a moment, in a way it is broken. ISP's today utilize QoS tools to limit connectivity and Quality of Service to their users. P2P, VoIP, etc. are truncated at low…

.MS: Alternate Root and Monoculture as Good Things

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2006 1:10 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Fine, do it with a redirector on a web page, or something far better. The technology doesn't matter. Honest. And no, this does not apply as an alternate root under the technical term, it does factually. I don't see why…

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2006 7:06 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  The hosts file is an example, I am sure Microsoft can do much better. If anything .MSFT points to their "DNS" server (root?). Leave the technology argument for later, look at merits, if you can't find any, that's also ok.

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2006 6:28 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Indeed, and yet it is so "cool" security-wise. Why "extend" the DNS? It is as unrealted as anything, if done just for their clients for support issues. How does it differ from the old .hlp files? These have been replaced…

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2006 6:11 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  It can be indexed by.. MSN. :)

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2006 6:10 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  That's my point. Only Microsoft customers would be using it. Without ever touching the DNS.

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2006 4:42 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Well, I think Fedora is kinda a Linux distribution. ;)

ICANN Ordered by Illinois Court to Suspend Spamhaus.org

• Comment posted Oct 07, 2006 11:59 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Thanks for that clarification, John. Further, Matthew Prince who is a lawyer in Illinois and quite spam savvy wrote a blog post on this subject, covering it from head to toe. Very interesting.

P2P as a New Spam Medium, Moving From PoC to Full Operations

• Comment posted Nov 22, 2006 8:12 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  Author comment: "eBook - Googlecash - Make Money using google (Learn to use Affiliate programs to make easy money).pdf" - Is a real book, seeded on P2P. We can call this a false positive.

Put Security Alongside .XXX

• Comment posted Apr 03, 2007 4:03 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  David's reply deserves a spot here, as obviously our discussion on NANOG is friendly: Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:57:32 -0700 From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...] Gadi,…

An Internet Security Operations Viewpoint of IGF

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2007 4:00 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  The Famous Brett Watson said: -- temporarily, at least. I don't completely agree that "the DNS is the one thing you can’t mitigate," but that's a can of worms that I'll leave unopened for now. It has become that, unfortunately.…

• Comment posted Nov 28, 2007 3:13 pm PST — by Gadi Evron
  I read our conversation again and I realize my mistake. Famous; the issue is that the DNS is the one thing you can't mitigate in any online threat, if a domain name is used, the criminals can just change the…

• Comment posted Nov 23, 2007 1:30 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  As the outcome of this ridiculous argument is that you are a great guy with the heart in the right place and quite a few brain cells, but absolutely no clue as to what's going on outside your own home…

• Comment posted Nov 23, 2007 12:46 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  Okay, try it.

• Comment posted Nov 22, 2007 1:06 pm PST — by Gadi Evron
  You are just looking for a fight. Back to my original post: Privacy == good. Public info CURRENTLY out there == necessary. New security measures == required before this public data is gone, I like it and can't live without…

• Comment posted Nov 22, 2007 2:58 am PST — by Gadi Evron
  The Famous Brett Watson said: Please explain what I'm missing in relation to the need for registrant details. It must be a very great need, given that we require honest people to give up their privacy in the name of…

Security Experts Skeptic About ICANN's Recommendations on Fast-Flux Hosting

• Comment posted Mar 14, 2008 3:20 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  I know Randy Abrams and I know Mary Landesman. They are good people and raise solid concerns. I brought this topic to the forefront and got it the attention, on CircleID as well. Now, while not being the foremost expert--nor…

Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 2:04 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Kevin, that makes sense. Thank you.

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 1:03 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  I may not know what I am talking about, I am known to babble and soemtimes even drool. So, you register a domain, make it more likely to get hits suing typosquating, then get some ads.. and do click fraud…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 12:45 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Parked domains, issue one. Click-fraud, issue two. Typo-squatting, issue 1.5 They two may not be the same, but one is used on the other. They don't wait for users to fall on to their scams, they bring their own users.

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 12:12 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Dacho Danches knows what he is talking about, as he researches it actively, in the wild, for years now. When he talks, I listen. Ego Inside--when it comes to cyber crime, if someone gets *me* to listen, you should too.

Email Portability, DKIM, and Socio-Political Implications on Tech Development

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 10:40 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Yes, the legislator may demand a movement, not of the pointer but of the object, the mailbox.

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 11:08 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Jim, thank you for clarifying that point. I appreciate your correction. It also seems to me, though, that forwarding may not be the technology of choice for these ISPs.

Estonian Cyber Security Strategy Document: Translated and Public

• Comment posted Sep 26, 2008 5:08 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  The Estonian cyber security strategy document is now available online. I must say once again the concept of a national cyber security stance is quite interesting. My contact there specified she'd be happy to answer any questions. To avoid spam…

Internet Vigilantism

• Comment posted Sep 26, 2008 4:04 am PDT — by Gadi Evron
  There is a difference between Vigilantism as it is perceived today and Vigilantism as it is in the dictionary. It means neighborhood watch. When the Police is not around, that is something you need. "It's for the children". Then again,…

ICANN Sends Termination Notice to Registrar

• Comment posted Oct 30, 2008 3:09 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  How disappointing, it seems like ICANN will no longer be terminating them… at least for now. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Phishing Registrar Accounts: eNom is First Target

• Comment posted Oct 30, 2008 3:01 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Greg, my friend. Thank you for your comment. to further clarify your point: Malicious activity-wise, the criminals often test their attacks before they fully unleash them. I believe that is also what happened here. Only in this case they also…

• Comment posted Oct 29, 2008 11:01 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Moniker too. Anyone cares about black hat registrars?

• Comment posted Oct 29, 2008 10:42 pm PDT — by Gadi Evron
  Network Solutions just got it. Working on it.