>At 01:20 PM 5/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Time to check out the Fed statutes regarding interception of
>communications. If the FBI can track down the Melissa author
>(um, with a little help) they certainly ought to be able to identify
>who is packet sniffing.
One might hope.
>And you are perfectly correct: a packet sniffer could as well be
>doing what on the face looks like an NSI activity -- the exception
>being that on the premise that party A was turned down by NSI
>for name whatever.xxx, how would it be that the packet sniffer
>was able to get it?
The previous complaints I've heard about have been people inquiring about
the availability of a name, finding it was available, then attempting to
register it and being told it is no longer available. Several of these
were "coined" domain names, so it seems unlikely that someone could just
decide to take [insert random string here].com so quickly after someone
inquired about it. Another case consisted of an applicant receiving the
acknowledgement that she had applied, then was told later that someone else
got it just a few minutes before she sent in the application. A third was
a .edu domain name request. In all of these cases, the party had inquired,
there was a slight lag between the inquiry, (and notification of
availability) and the attempted registration, and the name was registered
by another
>
>(You be Scully and I'll be Mulder, okay?) :-)
Sure. By coincidence, I do have short red hair, and am becoming convinced
that NSI is an alien conduit whereby the DNS is being colonized by little
green dollar signs :-)
