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Re:My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-f... by jusob on Thursday May 10, 2012 @07:01PM (#3956612)
This + RFC 3514 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt) will make internet secure!
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Re:My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-f... by GoodIntentions on Thursday May 10, 2012 @08:30PM (#3956910)
That RFC was the first thing that came to mind for me...

some folks will read ".secure" as ".pwn-this-i-dare-you" and it will happen eventually unless you air-gap any ".secure" machine from the "real" web. This idea is about as effective as the evil bit RFC imho, just less funny.

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Re:My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-f... by jerf on Friday May 11, 2012 @03:14AM (#3958104)
You say this like it's a bug, but it's a feature. Your servers don't get hardened by being ignored, they get hardened by being under continuous assault. The ignored servers are the ones the hackers waltz into with an exploit patched by the vendor six years ago.
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