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Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users May BeToo...
From: Chris Blask <chris () blask org>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:14:02 -0800 (PST)
--- "Hubbard, Dan" <dhubbard () websense com> wrote:
Is today April 1 ?
All I can say is WOW.
From: Paul Ferguson, Thu 2/14/2008 3:10 PM
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080214-icann-tlds-could-end-with-exe-confused-users-may-be-too.html
Note: This needs to be watched very closely, as it could unintentionally introduce some major security issues...
Holy mother of Mike... I've been obsessing with Usability Among Security Products of late. To the point - the abstruse nature of security as perceived by most people (even those of us here at times) is itself a significant cause of applied security weaknesses. In the simplest and broadest case, telling my Mom - and the couple billion people she represents - that .exe is not something to be triffled with is hard enough in itself. Even the relatively few million people who actually buy and deploy security products are - on average - non-optimally educated as to even these basic facts. Someone at ICANN has been sniffing the wrong bottle of liquids. This is sure to make all of our lives just oh so much simpler... -chris "Asprin! Please!" blask _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users May Be Too... Paul Ferguson (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users May BeToo... Hubbard, Dan (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users May BeToo... Peter Kosinar (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users May BeToo... Chris Blask (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users May BeToo... Alex Eckelberry (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users MayBeToo... Larry Seltzer (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? UsersMayBeToo... Hubbard, Dan (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users MayBeToo... Nick FitzGerald (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users MayBeToo... Larry Seltzer (Feb 14)
- Re: ICANN: TLDs Could End With EXE. Confused? Users May BeToo... Hubbard, Dan (Feb 14)