CryptedNets

You know, I’ve been reading a lot about this worm lately…
And it’s starting to piss me off..

If you stand back, and think about what the end-game of this worm is supposed to accomplish, the only valid goal of this worm that *I* can see is to teach everyone about DNSSEC.

Remember Dan Kaminsky’s finding about how insecure DNS is? And that in order to correctly secure it (DNS, and the whole Domain Namespace), *EVERYONE* needs to implement DNSSEC?

Well, you and I both know that “Ye can lead a man up to th’ University, but ye can’t make him think…” –Peter Finley Dunne

So, if *I* were an ultimate Uber-hacker, and I was tired of you un-washed, un-patched, un-protected legions of bandwidth-clogging, router hanging, mangled packet-spewing, infectionbots.. What better way to teach you all about how and why to secure your systems?

“If I can’t convince you, I bet I could *FORCE* you to start using DNSSEC….”

Say what you will… I call conspiracy….

P.S. – This in no way is meant to point the finger at Dan Kaminsky. I believe he is a true whitehat, and wouldn’t engage in such a guerilla tactic. We should all thank him for his contributions, and follow his lead.