When you file your taxes online, you want to be sure that the Web site you visit — www.irs.gov — is operated by the Internal Revenue Service and not a scam artist.Well, yeah.
I've blogged a lot about the DNS vulnerability from Hell, because, well, it's a scammer's dream come true. Imagine being able to have your own site where people go, thinking they're paying their taxes online.
Well, the Fed.gov is doing The Right Thing - they're implementing a secure version of DNS called DNSSEC throughout the entire .gov domain.
This is a lot of work that I'm sure lots of people would rather not be doing, and it is a big step in the right direction. A lot of us like to laugh at the feds, but this is a great example of them leading from the front.
Well done.
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