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My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone (Ars Technica)

My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone (Ars Technica)

Posted May 13, 2012 10:03 UTC (Sun) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone (Ars Technica) by wahern
Parent article: My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone (Ars Technica)

"That's a big "if", though. There're lots of conflicting economic interests at play."

That "if" becomes even bigger in the context of highly trusted certificate authorities issuing man-in-the-middle capable certificates to governments and "security systems" vendors.

Why do you think we would necessarily _know_ whether this organization is doing a good job maintaining security?


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My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone (Ars Technica)

Posted May 13, 2012 20:02 UTC (Sun) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

.secure wouldn't be worth anything other than as a temporary marketing ploy for taking cash off the gullible unless it uses DNSSEC throughout.

My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone (Ars Technica)

Posted May 14, 2012 18:54 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

s/unless/even if/

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