12 April 2003

And on the topic of DNS... From El Reg Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID theft, Paul Mockapetris, the co-inventor of DNS warns. Waiting in the wings is a better security standard for the Internet's Domain Name System. It's called DNSSec, and it uses digital signatures to guard against impersonation. But political wrangles are holding up adoption, Mockapetris claims. 5:20:49 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Blix: US was bent on war I believe Hans Blix has made the correct assessment, and I think he knew it all along. The contracts for *putting out* the oil well fires where discussed back in September 2002. In a scathing attack on Britain and the US, Mr Blix accused them of planning the war "well in advance" and of "fabricating" evidence against Iraq to justify their campaign. 5:14:26 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Global domination carries grave risks By renouncing America’s traditional foreign policy and adopting one of global military domination, the Bush administration has made a fundamental change in the international balance. 5:11:23 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Taxes Just been reading about how French and German companies will be denied any contracts for rebuilding Iraq - but Dick Cheney and others in his ilk will likely benefit financially from the rebuilding contracts. Here is a simple equation for getting money from American taxpayers. Taxpayers pay money for US military, and invasion force, circa $100 billion - taxpayers money spent on blowing up a country - leaders of US who started the war awarded lucrative contracts to rebuild the country - revenue to come from Iraqi oil sales - oil that incidentally goes to the US. Just a thought. 5:09:15 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Are tyrants shocked, awed or stocking up on nukes? Jonathan Freedland pointedly asks if the war has really helped the situation or just made it worse. I would go with the latter too. This week William Kristol, senior intellectual of the neo-conservative set, testified before the Senate foreign relations committee. He was asked whether the logic of the Iraq war - targeting a Ba'athist regime with links to terror and weapons of mass destruction - did not point inevitably to an attack on Syria, which meets all those same criteria. Kristol saw the logic, conceding that war with Syria could not be ruled out. This is the message from Washington: the shock and the awe may not be over yet. 5:03:12 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Homer's odyssey Mark Lawson on Homer Simpson. 300th episode its almost here, I cant help but feel that since the death of Maude the Simpsons has declined somewhat. Still though, we have a movie to look forward to. 4:59:37 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Net woes Jaysus everything on the net today seems to be going slow. The Independent website is constantly giving me messages saying the server is too busy to serve. Bernie is having DNS problems, the Iraqi Information site is down...hope I'm not next. 4:57:02 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments We love the Iraqi Information Minister The new site on the Iraqi Information Minister that I blogged on yesterday is temporarily down. It proved extremely popular - and with good reason, it was hilarious. Its expected to be back up in 24 hours. Note: from the webmaster The site was so popular that 4000 visitors per second showed up from around the world and overwhelmed this shared server for over 8 hours until we turned it off in self defense. It basically put a 100 other businesses out of business for a day.  If we had known it was going to be this popular we would have put it on it's own server from the beginning.   What started out as a private joke to be shared by a small group of friends has turned into a hit. Check back in 24 hours or so while the internet routers figure out where the new web server is that replaces this old one. The site consists of lots of bandwidth hogging pictures and animations that you'll love once you see it on its new home server. 4:54:17 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Apple may bid for Universal Music Chris used to work for Apple - this is an interesting idea. The iPod and downloaded music from Universal, seems like a natural combination. 4:45:49 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments Flames engulf the symbols of power Robert Fisk's latest report from Baghdad. At the Kindi hospital, they ordered journalists away from the premises but, briefly obtaining access to the emergency ward, I found a Shia Muslim cleric inside, a man who had studied in southern Lebanon, lecturing the gunmen on the need to restore order in the city. Of course, that was the Americans' job. But they weren't doing it. And in another piece: I sat on Saddam's throne and surveyed the dark chamber where terror was dispensed Outside stand the American Abrams tanks of the 3rd Infantry, their names expressing the banality and power of another nation. On their barrels the crews have nicknamed their armoured behemoths. Atomic Dog. Annihilator. Arsonist. Anthrax. Anguish. Agamemnon. Saddam would have approved. 4:36:26 PM    Click here to add to the [] comments

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