An article about denial-of-service attacks is actually a well-placed VeriSign PR campaign.
Earlier today I wrote about an op-ed by a Verisign Internet Advisory Board member that suggested that VeriSign needs to hike .com prices in order to handle security. A seemingly unrelated story that hit the wires this afternoon features VeriSign talking about denial-of-service attacks that hit major web sites earlier this year.
This is not a coincidence. Afterall, it mentions an old news event. This is a high powered PR campaign in action. The latter story about denial-of-service attacks mentions nothing about VeriSign’s latest .com registry agreement. What they’re trying to do is scare the public into thinking the domain name system is under new attacks and could meltdown. The hope is that when the general public reads stories about VeriSign hiking prices they’ll think to themselves “oh, yeah, that makes since…they need to beef up security for new attacks.”
The sad thing is that this approach works. The general public will be suckered.
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