[NA-Discuss] Apple finally patches dangerous DNS flaw

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Well finally Apple got off it's A$$!
See:
 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080108-apple-finally-patches-dangerous-dns.html?netht=rn_080108&nladname=080108dailynewspmal

  Lets all hope that this is not previews of coming attractions from
Apple.  But some how I get a erie feeling that this is becoming the
norm.  Seems to me that ICANN should have temporarily shut
down Apple.com until they had the problem fixed and tested so that
the exposure to users would have been better limited.  The abuse
to users was significant and the aftermath of damage is unknown and
will be very hard to fully determine.

  It is completely irresponsible for Apple's managment to allow
this to continue so long without requesting themselves to have their
Domain Name suspended.

Regards,

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