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Weird because the USA top level domain is supposed to be .us, with that being one of the first country code top level domains.
It's my understanding that .gov and .mil were brought over from when those were independent networks, pre-internet.
If .mil is typoed to .ml (Mali), I suppose it's also typoed to .il (Israel), but I imagine that worries the DoD less.
Not sure much can be done here short of the US Government hijacking the .ml domain altogether via ICANN, which, if even achievable, would probably cause worse side-effects than the leaking of low-grade intelligence to Mali. Probably the best partial mitigation would be to make it a condition of doing business with the military to put a blocker on all emails to .ml domain, and for all partner militaries to do the same…
The military should move to domain that is safer from typosquatting, by controlling a bunch of related TLDs.
Or continue not caring about spying on random unclassified information.
If those emails weren't encrypted, they weren't secret.
If those emails weren't encrypted, they weren't secret.
Conspiracy theory time: deliberate acts to provide Casus Belli for American invasion. Along the lines of Colin Powell's vial of anthrax at the UN or the "baby incubators" statements from a Kuwaiti princess a decade earlier. The article states "closely allied with Russia" and the current establishment desires to punish anyone who doesn't distance themselves from Russia. The emails might be nothing sensitive to the sta…
Why would the US want to invade Mali?
Not sure much can be done here short of the US Government hijacking the .ml domain altogether via ICANN, which, if even achievable, would probably cause worse side-effects than the leaking of low-grade intelligence to Mali. Probably the best partial mitigation would be to make it a condition of doing business with the military to put a blocker on all emails to .ml domain, and for all partner militaries to do the same…
The average business has no idea how to install a blocker like that. The military should move to domain that is safer from typosquatting, by controlling a bunch of related TLDs. Or continue not caring about spying on random unclassified information.
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The average business has no idea how to install a blocker like that. The military should move to domain that is safer from typosquatting, by controlling a bunch of related TLDs. Or continue not caring about spying on random unclassified information.
The average business uses G Suite or MS Office, and I'm sure that they could find the right setting if their government contract were dependent on it. That's a heck of a lot easier to pull off than migrating >1.4 million military personnel to a new email address.