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Just when you thought managerial spying was the exclusive field for tech-savvy firms like HP, the details are now coming out about an electronic spying scandal that brought down the head of the National Hockey League Players Association, Ted Saskin. Over the course of fifteen months, Saskin and an associate regularly accessed the email accounts of NHL player reps who wanted to have Saskin's hiring investigated. In addition, the results of a secret ballot ratifying the league's Collective Bargaining Agreement were provided to Saskin by members of the NHLPA's IT group - so watch out for any resumes listing NHLPA Network Security as a working experience!

ChelleChelle writes "Paul Vixie of Internet Systems Consortium provides a journey into the sublime complexity of the domain name system. Although it contains just a few simple rules, DNS has grown into an enormously complex system. This article explores the supposed and true definitions of DNS, showing some of the tension between the two definitions through the lens of the philosophy of Internet development protocol."