On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
My fellow RoadRunner using geeks have no doubt noticed this themselves by now, but for everyone else, an article is up on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253
thanks, slashdot! laughing until it hurts.
http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://our.own.ass.with.both.hands
The initial 2 questions raised are Motive and Ethics.2 sub elements each. With some ominous potential apparent when one expands the issues a bit. If you feel me alarmist do please recall that history is being written by how we handle issues like this one. The internet is unarguably now a part of our lives. Control of the internet thus becomes a control of our lives! Oh, my questions?
Is it a profit motive of picocredits per typo cash flow, or some motive where breaking something in DNS as preparation to net anti-neutrality directs this.
Is it ethical to break established de facto practices for self serving reasons? And is it ethical to alter the responses of a customer's software by literal misdirection!
That last one is the most potentially abusive. Consider the history lesson of how we got dial telephones. Almon Strowger was losing bodies to a rival undertaker when human telephone operators "redirected" his calls. Is DNS any different of a "redirection?" Or consider it as social /religious /political agenda.
THINK HARD on the next implied endpoints Type in X issue expecting truth and be directed to profitable lies. But of course truth is the enemy of some profits.