Cap’n Refsmmat’s Blog of Doom

To prevent phishing, all Internet scams and cons should be required by ICANN to use the TLD .con rather than .com.

That is all.

For a while I’ve been thinking about the classic Internet dilemma: authentication. For trust to work on the Internet, you need to (a) be able to verify the server you’re connecting to is the one it claims it is and (b) be able to prove you are who you claim you are.

(a) is a problem mostly solved by SSL/TLS (though there are a few lingering problems — and a lot of people ignore when SSL is not there). But (b) is a much larger problem.

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