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<font face="Verdana">BTW, I think people do know that ICANN needs US
government's clearance (or is it, advice) to appoint its Chief
Security Officer, and the current incumbent continues to be a
'sworn member' of the US government's Homeland Security Advisory
Committee...<br>
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No offence intended, but does not give me too much confidence.<br>
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I also understand that ICANN is right now involved in various kind
of issues related to securitisation of DNS and routing ....<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Friday 06 September 2013 11:32 AM,
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<p itemprop="articleBody"> Cryptographers have long suspected
that the agency (NSA) planted vulnerabilities in a standard
adopted in 2006 by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology and later by the International Organization for
Standardization, which has 163 countries as members. </p>
<p itemprop="articleBody"> Classified N.S.A. memos appear to
confirm that the fatal weakness, discovered by two Microsoft
cryptographers in 2007, was engineered by the agency. The
N.S.A. wrote the standard and aggressively pushed it on the
international group, privately calling the effort “a
challenge in finesse.” </p>
<p itemprop="articleBody"> “Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole
editor,” the memo says.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&</a><br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">This is the government to which we have
entrusted the oversight of some essential infrastructural
features of the Internet.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">Continuing on the subject of 'time to
get real....'.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">parminder <br>
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