Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web

When DNS [domain name system] was created in 1983, it was designed to be helpful and trusting–it’s directory assistance, after all. It was a time before hacker conventions and Internet banking. Plus, there were only a few hundred servers to keep track of. Today, the humble protocol stores the location of a billion Web addresses and routes every piece of Internet traffic in the world. Security specialists have been revamping and strengthening DNS for more than two decades. But buried beneath all this tinkering, there is an almost childlike core.

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