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The title reminds me when someone reported that it was just as easy to get fully-automatic firearms and other military gear from homeland security for free by pretending to be a police department (fake website) and a simple form.
There are other more straightforward ways to illegally purchase post-hughes machine guns. This is an extremely high risk scheme.
Good reporting, until this paragraph: Now consider what a well-funded adversary could do on Election Day armed with a handful of .gov domains for some major cities in Democrat strongholds within key swing states: The attackers register their domains a few days in advance of the election, and then on Election Day send out emails signed by .gov from, say, miami.gov (also still available) informing residents that bombs…
1. Attacker needs a .gov from a swing state
2. No they don't, because nobody who'd fall for this would analyze the sender address/website URL, let alone for .gov instead of .org/.net/.com, and there's zero need to emulate a gov website anyway, when emulating a news site would be at least as effective
3. It relies on people reading an email on election day before voting and then not bothering to verify what it says anywhere, not having someone tell them it's fake and not hearing about the scam on the news they're watching for the bomb story
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In Norway, people employed by the local municipalities have email adresses that are literally of the style $firstname[.$middlename].$lastname@employee.$municipalityName.municipality.no where "employee" and "municipality" are literal strings (in Norwegian) and the others are variables. It's incredible, I've seen people with 50 character long email addresses.
If you want to reschedule your Canadian citizenship ceremony, this is the address to email: RCC.DNCitSCRScheduling-ConvocationSCRCitRN.IRCC@cic.gc.ca
On the other hand, for email addresses in particular, it should be easy to just have one in each language, which also makes sense in terms of the person replying knowing upfront which language you'd like to use based on which address your query came in on.
> A review of the Top 10 most populous U.S. cities indicates only half of them have obtained .gov domains, including Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Diego. > Yes, you read that right: houston.gov, losangeles.gov, newyorkcity.gov, and philadelphia.gov are all still available. As is the .gov for San Jose, Calif., the economic, cultural and political center of Silicon Valley. A minor nit: Many of these ci…
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> That's not how .nyc is used or is expected to be used. It's a top-level domain, not a dotless host name. While it is prohibited by the ICANN policy [1], it is not strictly enforced so that there are multiple TLDs with A/AAAA records. They traditionally could be resolved with a trailing dot (thus it is not a dotless host name, that would have no dot), but nowadays many browsers refuse to resolve them without an expl…
This prohibition only applies to gTLDs. It does not apply to ccTLDs.
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There are other more straightforward ways to illegally purchase post-hughes machine guns. This is an extremely high risk scheme.
You don't even need to purchase them. Anyone with a drill press can make them with impunity.
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LA gov doesn't belong to CA gov, federalism, etc.
> LA gov doesn't belong to CA gov, federalism, etc. Federalism does not exist within states but between states and the federal government. Los Angeles (whether county or city) is an administrative subdivision of the State of California, not an separate sovereignty. OTOH, Los Angeles isn't getting a .ca.gov domain because the state government doesn't want to dilute it's brand with local government websites, but that's…
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If you want to reschedule your Canadian citizenship ceremony, this is the address to email: RCC.DNCitSCRScheduling-ConvocationSCRCitRN.IRCC@cic.gc.ca
Looks like part of that might be attempting to craft a bilingual email address? This kind of thing is tough to get right— in many cases the easiest thing is to just make up a word that's understandable in both languages but isn't obviously preferential to either, like how the transit agency in Ottawa is called "OC Transpo". On the other hand, for email addresses in particular, it should be easy to just have one in ea…