New York Times and DNS Hacks

As long as we use the Internet, we have to have some basic understanding of how this behemoth works.

We cannot just pretend that we are technologically-illiterate. All of us have to be somewhat technologically literate.

The attack on the nytimes.com domain is a good opportunity to educate ourselves about how to pull such a trick. Of course, the idea is not that EVERYONE should then try to pull similar tricks but just educate ourselves about HOW STUFF WORKS.

Here's the Washington Post explaining the attack on the NYT.

Here's one more technical look at the whole fracas.