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[BritBrat]

More than 300,000 people, including many in the UK, could be affected, when the FBI shuts down servers today as part of their fight against computer crime.

independent.co.uk

I hope this is not going to be OpenDNS !!

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[sevenlayermuddle]

What a fascinating story.  I was initially open-minded that it was a scam, that the story itself was a very successful virus, having 'infected' the newspapers.  But I dug deeper, and the basic story does seem to be corroborated and explained on what appears to be a genuine US govt website...

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911

The FBI obtained a court order authorizing the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) to deploy and maintain temporary clean DNS servers
...<much deleted>...
The clean DNS servers will be turned off on July 9, 2012, and computers still impacted by DNSChanger may lose Internet connectivity at that time.

 

[BritBrat]

Yeah I was thinking spam/virus at first but I also think its legit.

[kitz]

Its legit, the story has been doing the rounds for a while now.. and theres a few threads about it.  ie when it was first discovered... then when the FBI gave 12 months notice they were going to turn the serves off.. and iirc a more recent one. 

I could be wrong but calling it internet doomsday may be over the top
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,11363.msg219680.html#msg219680

[burakkucat]

I could be wrong but calling it internet doomsday may be over the top

 . . . but a good way for the proprietors to sell more newspapers! 

[guest]

First cases of this are appearing on Sky forums now.

If it was up to me I think I'd leave them as they are.

Sorry if this sounds elitist but some people are really too stupid to have anything other than a heavily managed (filtered) internet connection.

Sorry if that sounds harsh but IME about 20% of the people I come in contact with shouldn't be allowed to have anything more interactive than a TV/Wii. They are simply too stupid to cope with it - I'm talking IQ, not age, education or background here.