Hi. On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:32:46AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 04:23:53PM -0000, bolaki...@mail2tor.com wrote: > > In fact the topic came from an old article about the threat to > > be > > hacked/targeted : backdoor & hostname_nsa tool. > > Anyway the new equipment/hardware could solve all these > > 'confusion' in a > > near future by simplifying the terminology and perhaps implementing > > officially backdoors (software too ? on the tor blog someone asked the > > question - no response). i wonder if the 'independent' dns will be > > "allowed" but it is another story. > > What on EARTH are you talking about now? > > You appear to be concerned that your hostname contains secret information, > and that having your hostname "leaked" to the rest of the world will be > an issue for you? > > If that's the case, try not putting secret information into your > hostname. E.g. naming your machine my_mothers_maiden_name_is_johnson > might be a bad idea.
It is a bad idea regardless of information disclosure as it violates RFC 1123. > Hope this helps. > > P.S. Your text formatting is quite difficult to read. Please separate > your lines from the quoted lines with a blank line, and please do not > indent your lines. OP's using SquirrelMail, which is known to produce pure gibberish instead of coherent text. Reco
