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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:16:03 -0400
From: Richard Forno <rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Article: Spinning SiteFinder
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Article: Spinning SiteFinder: FUD, brought to you by VeriSign
Article Link: http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2003-04.html
This analysis looks at VeriSign's recent statements about SiteFinder, how
the company is spinning the "service" in its public statements. The
concluding paragraph - shown below - sums up my main thesis:
"VeriSign's clumsy, unilateral attempt to hijack the DNS space through its
SiteFinder wildcard service (and its goofy FUD-filled management statements
since) proves that profiteering decisions can and do endanger the
Internet more than any hacker or computer attack. It also proves once again
that the Internet community ISPs, developers, engineers, and other experts
-- can come together to effectively and quickly counter corporate, not just
criminal, attacks on the network infrastructure - and we owe them our
thanks."