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Re: Privacy leak in VeriSign's SiteFinder service #2



They did setup a mail server for the wild card tld. You send that mail you suggested and they get your to and from out of it then disconnect you.

--tim

nslookup -type=MX sdfsgggdfasfasdf.com
Server:  ns1.bluegravity.com
Address:  64.57.64.2

com
        origin = a.gtld-servers.net
        mail addr = nstld.verisign-grs.com
        serial = 2003092500
        refresh = 1800 (30M)
        retry   = 900 (15M)
        expire  = 604800 (1W)
        minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)

At 05:37 AM 9/25/2003, you wrote:

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Marco Ivaldi wrote:

> What if Verisign is planning to open more similar TCP/IP services on that
> host? What if they're going to further modify the existing ones, to better
> invade individuals' privacy?

Up to now, e-mails addressed to misspelled mail domains will not be sent
to Verisign's Fake-SMTP-service as MX records are used for mail-domain
resolving. Verisign did not set up wildcard MX records.

However, if you configure your E-Mail-Program or local
Mail-Transfer-Agent and misspell the hostname of the SMTP-Server for
outgoing mail, all outgoing mail will be sent to their Fake-SMTP service.

What if Versign is planning to add wildcard MX records as well, so that
any mail addressed to mistyped/non-existant mail domains like
"foobar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" will be sent to their fake SMTP service?

Expect the worst!

hepp...
        Henning

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