Cloudflare's DNS Outage: A Configuration Misstep

• Bypassing all passkey protections.
• The ransomware attacks just keep on coming.
• Cloudflare capitulates to the MPA and starts blocking.
• The need for online age verification is exploding.
• Microsoft really wants Exchange Servers to subscribe.
• Russia (further) clamps down on Internet usage.
• The global trend toward more Internet restrictions.
• China can inspect locked Android phones. Use a burner.
• Web shells are the new buffer overflow.
• An age verification protocol sketch.
• What Cloudflare did to create an outage of 1.1.1.1

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1035-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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