Al-Quida hackers are taking over the internet!

Nice! Hope it hurt a bit...

I wasn't ever going to post here again, this asinine comment so pissed me off I had to.

The only reason this dns vulnerability didn't lead to huge problems on the internet is because all vendors took appropriate action, the person who discovered it didn't publish it but worked with the vendors to help them create a patch.

The fact that a telco who provides major backbones for the internet did hade one of their dns servers compromised in a matter of hours of publishing the vulnerability shows just how serious this event could have been if everyone had taken Crito's attitude toward this. I guess some people are so ignorant or arrogant that they just can't help but shoot themselves in the foot over what they seemingly can't understand.

If a major spate of patching dns servers hadn't already taken place before the vulnerability was released we wouldn't be talking about a single incident, but about hundreds of millions of dollars lost through undetectable phishing schemes, and the almost total loss of trust in e-commerce by the average individual. Billions of dollars of business would have been lost, and many thousands of IT people would have ended up out of work because the business income that supports their jobs would have been gone, perhaps for good.

I can't believe someone who poses as an IT professional could be this ignorant and arrogant about something that was so potentially serious. To me it demonstrates a total lack of awareness of how important security is.

The vast majority of DNS servers STILL haven't been patched. Apple didn't even bother to make a patch until late last week. The fact that nothing major has happened PROVES this was blown way out of proportion. More security theater from the self-serving security industry.

And as far as priorities are concerned, you might be right, I'm more than willing to sacrifice security for liberty. Unfortuantely I'm in the minority as most people seem willling to do just the opposite, sacrifice their freedom for some semblance of security, even if it's only imaginary security and not real.