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FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July

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tomos:
I heard about this (via a german site) a while back, and checked (I think, again, via a german site) if I was okay or not.
Sorry, I have no links / cant remember where...

Deozaan:
I use OpenDNS, so I think I should be good. :Thmbsup:

Stoic Joker:
Nice, so instead of informing the public about the exploit ...So they could get it fixed properly... The Feds decide to perpetuate it (by piping it through their own servers) for what exactly?? Sounds to me like a bunch of folks just got hacked once and then sold off for chattel by their "rescuers".
-Stoic Joker (April 24, 2012, 06:43 AM)
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I don't think that's the way I'd describe what happened.-mwb1100 (April 25, 2012, 02:10 AM)
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(hehe) Understood. But I'm a product of the 70's ... So I've never really been warm-and-fuzzy with "the man". :)

 -  They have informed the public (whether they've done so effectively might be debatable).

  -  The replacements for the rogue DNS servers were set up so people who were exploited could continue using the internet.  I think another reason was to give time for Microsoft, ISPs and anti-malware vendors to get fixes through to their users. I'd hope that that was being done, but don't know if it was. Nobody could force them to do so.-mwb1100 (April 25, 2012, 02:10 AM)
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Agreed, but... It just strikes me that they stumbled across a "sweet spot" demographic and decided to mine it for awhile to see what else might show-up regarding the target audience. Otherwise what would be the point of treating this particular bugg any different than the other thousands of exploits floating around out there? People might lose internet access? Like that doesn't happen every day anyhow...

The DNS servers were changed, that's hardly a rocket science level fix. Redirection folks to a page that said "Hi we're the Feds, and you're infected with X. Please contact you're ISP or local computer emporium for a fix." would have been considerably more honest. OTOH Expecting me to believe those (FBI DNS) servers didn't have logging set to max ...(lol)... Just ain't gonna happen. ;)

Renegade:
Seems to me that the FBI needs a good EMP so we can watch them go WTF as they are KO'd.

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