Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live

An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post, Comcast's Jason Livingood has announced that Comcast has signed all of its (5000+) domains in addition to having all of its customers using DNSSEC-validating resolvers. He adds, 'Now that nearly 20 million households in the U.S. are able to use DNSSEC, we feel it is an important time to urge major domain owners, especially commerce and banking-related sites, to begin signing their domain names.'"

Re:Comcast supports SOPA

[shentino]

DNSSEC won't prevent SOPA from being enforced.

The registries holding the authoritative records can still be compelled to change the master data they send.

Re:Just in time!

[TheBrez]

Simple. The technical people at Comcast are highly skilled intelligent people. They aren't senior level techs at one of the largest ISPs in the world by being idiots. The legal department on the other hand is staffed by money-sucking weasels (like all legal departments are) who are supporting stupidity in legislation without bothering to talk to their highly skilled technical people about whether this braindead legislation is even technically POSSIBLE to implement. The technical people no doubt KNOW that SOPA is impossible with DNSSEC. Hence they're encouraging everyone to move to DNSSEC as quickly as possible, so in the event that Congress screws up and passes this abortion of a bill at the behest of the large content providers and intellectual property bandits, they'll find out that it doesn't work on large portions of the Internet, thus pissing off their constituents even more, and causing a large shift in political goodwill towards their opponents.

Has anybody suggested asking the current political candidates their views on SOPA? If you live in the US, and your Congressperson is listed as a Co-sponsor of the bill, or listed as an opponent of the bill, have you contacted them to voice your opinion? Votes are all that matters to politicians. A few hundred calls/emails to their office telling them that this is a flawed bill, and it WILL result in your vote going to their opponent can quickly change their minds on what matters to them.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR03261:@@@P [loc.gov]
That's the current list of SOPA co-sponsors.