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Comment Re:I'm safe, in my ADSL utopia (Score 1) 146

So, if you have a GigE lan, any trojaned machine can poison your DNS during one night...

People at home are safe though - that's the main thing. People on the local net at home are generally known people, with access to your house (WiFi excepted), and could probably find easier ways to steal your identity, capture keystrokes, etc. And you're safe from Internet people too - at the end of my 8Mb connection, I think I'd notice a Gb of traffic heading my way, to say nothing of it taking 125 times longer anyway.

Unfortunately most people on ADSL don't run their own name server, and instead use their ISPs nameserver. Hopefully not too many people will have GigE access to the ISPs nameserver so this attack probably won't work anyway.

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