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Comment by jcalvinowens

1 day ago

DNSSEC prevents that if set up properly.

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tptacek  6 hours ago

This is an on-path attacker. In end-user DNS configurations, attackers can simply disable DNSSEC; it's 1 bit in the DNS response header ("yeah, sure, I verified this for you, trust me").

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