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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Kerry Brown <kerry at kdbsystems.com> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
> Actually most computers are infected through social engineering and/or
> flaws in Adobe Flash, Reader, and Oracle Java. The underlying OS is
> becoming less relevant. An argument could be made that Windows 7 is
> currently the most secure of all the popular desktop OS's, at least until
> you start adding 3rd party software.
>
> In any case the rationale behind why Microsoft did this isn't important to
> the debate over if what they did is right or wrong. The end result was good
> for the Internet. Is that enough to justify what they did? Personally I'm
> torn.


+1 It is indeed challenging and there are no easy answers.

> I applaud Microsoft for taking down some criminals, even if only
> temporarily. At the same time the issue of who has jurisdiction over a gTLD
> is a vexing question for which I have no answers. I think some successful
> gTLDs in jurisdictions other than the US may over time solve the problem.
> Consumers will have a choice of which jurisdiction they want their domain
> to fall under. They have that now with ccTLDs but more choice is always
> better.
>
> Kerry Brown
>
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