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    Verisign/NSI Security
    VeriSign Says SiteFinder is Just Napping
    posted by michael on Thursday October 16 2003, @04:39AM

    Declan McCullagh reports that VeriSign plans to revive SiteFinder on 30 to 60 days notice. According to VeriSign's spokesman its re-evaluation of its Site Finder redirection service found "no identified security or stability problems." [Others will undoubtedly disagree with this claim, or suggest it is a little myopic.]



    The comments came at the second public meeting of the security and stability advisory committee.

     
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    is 30 days long enough ...
    by domainlaw on Thursday October 16 2003, @06:25AM (#12477)
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    Is 30 days long enough for us to start our own Internet, so we can tell Verisign to go stuff theirs? Maybe we can even start our own ICANN while we're at it -- after all, it shouldn't be hard to improve on the original. Verisign, ICANN, New.Net, etc., can go off and play in their little fantasy world, and the rest of us will have an Internet that actually works.

    (Oh yes, I almost forgot -- spammers, you're welcome to stay in Verisign's legacy net; they're likely to be more gullible anyway.)
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    This is too rich
    by fnord (reversethis-{moc.oohay} {ta} {k2yorg}) on Thursday October 16 2003, @07:33PM (#12485)
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    VeriSign plays the end-user card, claiming that a poll of such worthies is largely in favour of SiteFinder. And did they also poll end-users regarding the WLS which will misdirect them into never-never land when domains change hands? Of course not.

    Richer still is that they won't release the methodology of the poll as they cite it as proprietary (such scientific exactitude in the medical arena would have us still evaluating whether heroin should be the painkiller of choice).

    But I've got to hand it to Steve Crocker, who repeatedly seems much more clued than his infamous (and apparently somewhat stupider) brother, as he states [yahoo.com]:

    The Internet was really built not by a set of companies that built closed, proprietary systems but by a much more open system...
    Bravo! Now if he can only get the rest of the Board (and presumably himself) to live by such a simple tenet, there may be hope for us yet. -g
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