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

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 23.09.12 12:08, 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.)
>
> "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..."
>

This is an perfect example of abusing market share. In this case, the 
victims computers were infected because of flaws in the software 
supplied by Microsoft. The irony is that all those people paid Microsoft 
for that software.

Instead of spending some effort to fix the software on the infected 
computers, Microsoft is taking the "cheaper" route to shut down the 
command centers of the botnet. Or so they think. Or so they try to make 
everyone think.
The rest of the story is just collateral damages.

I am more worried that Microsoft is not brought to court for letting 
those victims computers become infected in the first place. This is no 
different than letting a company sell medicine that is known to have bad 
side effects -- the US it seems has double standard here as in "No to 
Canadian drugs!" and "But Microsoft software is ok" :).

Of course, the story with the shutdown domains remain, but the moral 
there is (and has been for years!): If you don't want to be subject to 
arbitrary US actions, don't register domain names with US-based 
registries and registrars.

Daniel


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