[governance] 3322.org seized by Microsoft from Chinese DNS service provider

[parminder]

On Sunday 23 September 2012 02:38 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Krebs on Security: "Malware Dragnet Snags Millions of Infected PCs"
> http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/09/malware-dragnet-snags-millions-of-infected-pcs/
>
> (I'm more concerned about the innocent third parties affected by this
> kind of action, though. --Norbert.)

Equally concerning is the trans border exercise of coercive force in 
such a blatant and sweeping manner... Do  such kind of things not give 
grist to the mills that advocate nationalised DNS systems that the 
recent proposal of China on 'autonomous Internet' to the IETF does...... 
We should know that the same kind of trans border excercise of power 
done in this case for an apparently good reason can be done for many 
other, more objectionable, kinds of reasons, if all it takes is a US 
judge getting convinced that US law/ interests are implicated.

There should be more legitimate international systems taking care of the 
kind of problem that Microsoft detected than the way it got done. But 
there are people who remain convinced that nothing is broken that needs 
to be fixed - the broken record that we have been hearing for more than 
a decade now.

parminder


>
> "Last week, Microsoft Corp. made headlines when it scored an
> unconventional if not unprecedented legal victory: Convincing a U.S.
> court to let it seize control of a Chinese Internet service provider’s
> network as part of a crackdown on piracy..."
>


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