The Dan Who Blackholed the World
Wired magazine has the story of Dan Kaminsky’s discovery of a gaping security flaw in the Internet’s DNS architecture:
Then last January, on a drizzly Sunday afternoon, he flopped down on his bed, flipped open his laptop, and started playing games with DNS. He used a software program called Scapy to fire random queries at the [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“We detest such vile base practices.”
—Two Gentlemen of Verona, 4.1.73

