Ant recommends a Wired piece on the background story of the Kaminsky DNS bug and its (temporary) resolution, decreasing the odds of a successful breach from 1 in 2^16 to 1 in 2^32. We’ve discussed this uber-hole a number of times. Wired follows the story arc from before Kaminsky’s discovery of the bug to his public presentation of it in Las Vegas.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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