The reports are usually first paragraph quotes of the articles as they appear. NIPC didn't write it. Jimmy -----Original Message----- From: Seth Arnold To: fw@private Cc: crime@private Sent: 3/12/02 11:29 AM Subject: Re: CRIME NIPC DAILY REPORT FOR 12 MARCH 2002 On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:44:28AM -0800, George Heuston wrote: > > NIPC Daily Report 12 March 2002 [man, these guys get an amazing amount of stuff incorrect; today, it bothered me enough to whine at all of you about it. :] > Security flaw could affect all Linux systems. Guardian Digital Inc., a > Linux security firm, Guardian Digital did not find the problem. Guardian Digital simply went public with the vulnerability before the agreed-upon date and time that had been decided. The problem affects far more than just Linux systems, as well. > Court shuts down '.usa' address scam. The web site did not work, the > FTC said because, .usa is not recognized by the standards-setting > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and will not work > on the Internet. (Reuters, 11 Mar) Uhhh... .usa can work if someone sets up root name servers that are authoritative for that top level domain. ISPs could easily add support for .usa for their own customers through a simple tweak to their name server's configuration files. Individual users could apply a similarly simple tweak to resolve .usa addresses if their ISPs do not. Cheers :) -- http://sardonix.org/
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