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It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by bsder »

soperj wrote: post #24
MereInterest wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the major political parties in the US has been repeatedly engaging in voter suppression. Is it partisan to observe repeated behavior on one side of the political spectrum, and to extrapolate accordingly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...

From an outsiders perspective, there's very little difference between both your political parties.

Then you haven't been paying attention very much.

One party appears to be on the Russian payroll, the other isn't.

And while you may not wish to pay attention to US or UK party politics, you might want to check which parties from your government might be on the Russian payroll.

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by jrockway »

bonyt wrote: post #17

> 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…

We have a TLD for NYC. It is, expectedly, not used for the city's official website. I guess people don't know how to visit TLDs in their browser. (I believe it would be "nyc.")

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by bcrosby95 »

soperj wrote: post #24
MereInterest wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the major political parties in the US has been repeatedly engaging in voter suppression. Is it partisan to observe repeated behavior on one side of the political spectrum, and to extrapolate accordingly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...

From an outsiders perspective, there's very little difference between both your political parties.

One party asked for voter data by race, then got rid of voting methods disproportionately used by black people. The same party also passed voter ID laws, and allowed NRA membership cards but not college ID cards.

Your comment amounts to "I'm ignorant, but to me both parties are the same".

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by CydeWeys »

jrockway wrote: post #32
bonyt wrote: post #17

> 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…

We have a TLD for NYC. It is, expectedly, not used for the city's official website. I guess people don't know how to visit TLDs in their browser. (I believe it would be "nyc.")

That's not how .nyc is used or is expected to be used. It's a top-level domain, not a dotless host name. Here's an example of how it's used: https://thecity.nyc/

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by save_ferris »

forgingahead wrote: post #2

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…

The Houston Chronicle reported today that the Texas GOP plans to purchase several domains resembling democratic candidates and run active disinformation campaigns against them using fake campaign sites[0]. Might’ve had something to do with it.

0: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article...

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by cortesoft »

chatmasta wrote: post #16
RandomBacon wrote: post #3

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.

An alarming amount of societal functionality depends on what effectively amounts to the honor system. This is especially true when it comes to any sort of gatekept specialty profession, like coroners for example. There was a great talk at DefCon about faking death: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs

I don't know if that is a solvable problem. Society is trust, and it always takes trusting someone to make any system work.

People try to build trust-less systems all the time (like blockchains) but always run up against someplace where trust is required.

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by soperj »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #33
soperj wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From an outsiders perspective, there's very little difference between both your political parties.

One party asked for voter data by race, then got rid of voting methods disproportionately used by black people. The same party also passed voter ID laws, and allowed NRA membership cards but not college ID cards. Your comment amounts to "I'm ignorant, but to me both parties are the same".

And the other party is guilty of nothing?

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by linux2647 »

hcs wrote: post #27
bonyt wrote: post #17

> 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…

> LA has .. lacity.org? That’s a bit unexpected Vs lacounty.gov I guess?

vs lastate.gov aka Louisiana

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by radium3d »

hcs wrote: post #27
bonyt wrote: post #17

> 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…

> LA has .. lacity.org? That’s a bit unexpected Vs lacounty.gov I guess?

or losangeles.ca.gov would be neat
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