Re: Privacy leak in VeriSign's SiteFinder service #2

["Timothy J. Biggs" <tjb () bluegravity com>]

They did setup a mail server for the wild card tld. You send that mail you 
suggested and they get your to and from out of it then disconnect you.

--tim

nslookup -type=MX sdfsgggdfasfasdf.com
Server:  ns1.bluegravity.com
Address:  64.57.64.2

com
        origin = a.gtld-servers.net
        mail addr = nstld.verisign-grs.com
        serial = 2003092500
        refresh = 1800 (30M)
        retry   = 900 (15M)
        expire  = 604800 (1W)
        minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)

At 05:37 AM 9/25/2003, you wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Marco Ivaldi wrote:
>
> > What if Verisign is planning to open more similar TCP/IP services on that
> > host? What if they're going to further modify the existing ones, to better
> > invade individuals' privacy?
>
> Up to now, e-mails addressed to misspelled mail domains will not be sent
> to Verisign's Fake-SMTP-service as MX records are used for mail-domain
> resolving. Verisign did not set up wildcard MX records.
>
> However, if you configure your E-Mail-Program or local
> Mail-Transfer-Agent and misspell the hostname of the SMTP-Server for
> outgoing mail, all outgoing mail will be sent to their Fake-SMTP service.
>
> What if Versign is planning to add wildcard MX records as well, so that
> any mail addressed to mistyped/non-existant mail domains like
> "foobar () sdfsgggdfasfasdf com" will be sent to their fake SMTP service?
>
> Expect the worst!
>
> hepp...
>         Henning
>
> --


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--
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