Scott Williams

I found a snippet from NIST unveils tool to foil attacks via DNS to be highly suggestive:

Network researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a method that federal systems administrators can use to protect their systems from increasingly complex attacks launched via the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet and private IP networks.

The italicized words, federal systems administrators, sound strange to my ears. Not to imply that such things don’t exist, because they clearly must, but it sounds like a news blurb from a fictional high-tech story. It gives me this “Big Brother runs the Internet” feeling, or maybe a stand-off between federal DNS administrators and state DNS administrators. Interesting food for thought.

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