[registrars] Re: ISOC Forum (Vol. 4, No. 4)

[Robert F. Connelly]

At 09:58 PM 4/21/98, Wendy Rickard Bollentin wrote:

For those of you who may have forgotten (or never knew), here is the story 
of the hi jacking of the InteraNIC web site in 1997.

Question:  Would DNSSEC have prevented this hi jacking?

Regards, BobC

>* HACKER PLEADS GUILTY
>Eugene Kashpureff, the domain name system hacker who
>successfully rerouted millions of Web users last year,
>pleaded guilty to federal charges of computer fraud. As part
>of the plea, Kashpureff admitted causing damages of only
>$15,000, considerably less than the "hundreds of thousands
>of dollars" in damages cited in original charges, one of his
>attorneys said. The charges stemmed from Kashpureff's
>actions last summer, when he rerouted all Web traffic headed
>for Network Solutions' InterNIC page to his own AlterNIC
>page in protest over InterNIC's claim of ownership of .com,
>org, and .net. (Net Insider, 20 March 1998)