Re: ~/.hosts patch

From: John Birrell <jb_at_what-creek.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:07:39 +0000
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:02:50AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 06:38:16AM +0000, John Birrell wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:31:36AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> > > Wouldn't this enable the same kind of phishing attacks there are under 
> > > windows? As far as I remember there are attacks where the hosts file 
> > > (don't remember how its called under windows) is rewriten by a virus/java 
> > > script/whatever to contain a different IP address for a given hostname? 
> > > Suppose someone fakes the website of www.foobank.com, then manages to 
> > > insert www.foobank.com with the wrong IP address into ~/.hosts?
> > 
> > Ugh. Now that is a scary thought.
> 
> and that's why people use https and certificates!
> what's the concern here ?

The fact that a lot of innocent (naive) people don't use https and certificates?!

If you can solve that, then by all means include the patch.

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John Birrell
Received on Wed Jun 21 2006 - 05:07:42 UTC

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