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by mhluongo 2617 days ago
I didn't post the link. I'm just asking for details about an unspecified attack in your comment, or really any pointed criticism at all (:
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It isn't hand-wavy. However, it is problematic when people propose solutions to fundamental design issues, without knowing the threat model.

In the link that was posted, a pollution of a distributed root zone will vitiate the entire Internet's DNS. That is the vulnerability, and there are many attacks that will achieve that for the link that was posted.