Björn Persson wrote:
Also, if it is the a system administrator at the bank, what is to prevent him from just changing the real name servers? Or putting in a program on the bank's web server to capture the username and password when you enter them? Lets face it, if a bank employee wants to embezzle money from the bank, there is not much we as costumers can do about it.Les Mikesell wrote:You aren't paranoid enough. What if the spoofer is also a system administrator at the bank with access to a copy of the real certificate that he installs on the machine he's tricked your dns into reaching - with the expected name that you'll still see.Then the bank has failed to protect its secret key. I expect banks to have rigorous security routines to control who can access sensitive systems, and to be able to check afterwards who did what.Could you elaborate on how whois guards against malicious system administrators? Do you think security could be improved by having browsers and other programs make whois queries automatically?Björn Persson
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