16 Sep
2003
16 Sep
'03
12:53 a.m.
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matt Larson wrote:
Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net zones.
The Web Proxy Auto-discovery Protocol (WPAD) is another reason to fear and loathe this change. If your host has a bogus name and makes a WPAD request, they can send your browser a proxy config function and take full control of your browsing. Not that they would ever stoop so low... *cough* Duane W.