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meeradas
7th May 2012, 18:58
Open this (http://www.pastie.org/3867284)in one tab, and have this (http://who.is/whois/google.com/) open in another, to check for yourself.

Some excerpts from the article behind the first link:

- "is a company that can own most people's "Internet" in minutes. It now controls all three top free e-mail providers directly, and I suppose it's safe to say, most currently active social media sites too.

- also is a trusted Certificate Authority; they have, in essence, the means to fabricate safe-looking SSL connections for you, to whichever host they want. Your browser will not sound any warnings of possible man-in-the-middle attacks.

- has acquired complete access to monitor, eavesdrop, censor and fake any user of these popular Internet services in about one year (2011).

- Not only inside U.S., but globally."

Yes, they 'own' all of the common services we use.

I recommend reading the complete article for full understanding of what we're dealing with:

"Secure communication is an illusion". Period.

That was it.

penn
7th May 2012, 23:13
Open this (http://www.pastie.org/3867284)in one tab, and have this (http://who.is/whois/google.com/) open in another, to check for yourself.

Some excerpts from the article behind the first link:

- "is a company that can own most people's "Internet" in minutes. It now controls all three top free e-mail providers directly, and I suppose it's safe to say, most currently active social media sites too.

- also is a trusted Certificate Authority; they have, in essence, the means to fabricate safe-looking SSL connections for you, to whichever host they want. Your browser will not sound any warnings of possible man-in-the-middle attacks.

- has acquired complete access to monitor, eavesdrop, censor and fake any user of these popular Internet services in about one year (2011).

- Not only inside U.S., but globally."

Yes, they 'own' all of the common services we use.

I recommend reading the complete article for full understanding of what we're dealing with:

"Secure communication is an illusion". Period.

That was it.


I checked whois on google and yahoo. They are hosted by markmasters.com. So I checked whois on markmaster.com and .net and they are hosted in the us by noyb (none of your business?) when I try whois on noyb, I keep getting sent back to a blank google search page. ???

This is not my specialty but I thought I would check it out. So what is noyb, anyway?

Thanks,
Penn

meeradas
7th May 2012, 23:22
Strange.
Only thing i get is this one single co., be it google, or yahoo, facebook, etc... :

penn
8th May 2012, 01:38
Strange.
Only thing i get is this one single co., be it google, or yahoo, facebook, etc... :

I only type whois ...name in google search and read from the search listings. When I did that for MarkMonitor I got the "noyb". I am on an ipad and do not know how to capture a screen shot.

That really could be one way to the internet kill switch. We better start practicing our telepathy.

Thanks for the lnfo.

Penn

ThePythonicCow
8th May 2012, 02:47
At http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/markmonitor.com it looks like markmonitor.com provides the DNS host for "markmonitor.com" (not surprisingly.)