DNS Attacks

[Björn Persson]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> You aren't paranoid enough.  What if the spoofer is also a system
> administrator at the bank with access to a copy of the real certificate
> that he installs on the machine he's tricked your dns into reaching -
> with the expected name that you'll still see.

Then the bank has failed to protect its secret key. I expect banks to have 
rigorous security routines to control who can access sensitive systems, and 
to be able to check afterwards who did what.

Could you elaborate on how whois guards against malicious system 
administrators? Do you think security could be improved by having browsers 
and other programs make whois queries automatically?

Björn Persson