At 11:38 18/09/2003 +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Brian Gibbons wrote:
Don't forget that up until now Microsoft owned the World Wide Web. Type this into IE www.dfghjkl.co.nz, rather than getting a DNS error you end up at Xtra MSN, thus Microsoft have built logic into IE to redirect non existant domain errors to a Microsoft MSN affiliate.
No, the analogy doesn't hold. To start with, you can change the default search page in IE quite easily (and Microsoft even provides the tools for that). Also, it's not just domains that it searches for.
Second, you don't have to use IE and finally, IE doesn't 0wn j00 emailZ.
Lets also keep in mind that this is not limited to just e-mail and web traffic, this affects _all_ protocols where someone could make a typing mistake. Do we really trust Verisign that much that they wont go on a password gathering rampage, or launch man in the middle type attacks all in the name of being a nice big brother ? This has some pretty _major_ security implications as well. -- Steve.