As we all know, on Friday Oct 21, 2016 DNS provider Dynect was severely impacted by a big DDoS attack which has since been attributed to the Mirai Botnet. (interesting to note that “Mirai” means “future” in Japanese). Briefly: The Mirai Botnet is constructed by commandeering network connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as […]
Censorship, Cyberwar and Surveillance Will Lead to a Global Net-Split
I used to say in a very offhanded way that if the global governance and due process issues continued unaddressed, or the affronts to multi-national sovereignty got worse then the logical outcome, eventually, would be a “net-split”. A Net-split from the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) parlance is when a cohesive network – like the internet – splits off […]
Which Presidential Candidate is the Anti-Surveillance Pro-Privacy Candidate Again? I Forgot.
As it happens, Yahoo has been scanning all inbound email on behalf of the US Government. Reuters news broke the story yesterday. “Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The […]
Using URLs Effectively, #4…
Yes. That is all.
WDRP, Whois Accuracy Program Notices now signed with our GPG Key
Some of you may have noticed that we are now signing WDRP (Whois Data Reminder Program), WAP (Whois Accuracy Program) and some renewal notices with our GPG key. This is phase one heading toward all system generated notices (login alerts, event notifications, renewal invoices, etc) being signed as well. We’ll be cleaning up any instances […]
RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay
We were forwarded a letter from the RIAA via our lawyers on Friday whom in turn received it from Public Interest Registry (PIR), who is the registry operator of the .ORG top level domain. The letter was sent from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asking PIR “to reconsider whether it wants its services to continue […]
