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Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by sokoloff on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:43PM (#16917650)
Yes, but under such a scheme, once I’ve wrestled control back of DNS, your ability to use those ill-gotten certs is reduced/eliminated.

Today, if I got a basic cert for your domain by temporarily hijacking DNS, I can later use it to MITM you even without DNS poisoning/takeover.

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