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Dan Kaminsky: Upgrade Your DNS Now!
DNS is the fundamental human-friendly abstraction of the Internet. It maps names such as oreilly.com to addresses computers can understand. Yet there are flaws in the protocol, which mean that malicious users can redirect your request for oreilly.com for their own nefarious purposes. Security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered this danger and convinced the major DNS providers to work around the flaw. Here's how you can protect yourself and your information.
The Internet Archive obeys robots.txt of course (lucky for you if you have access to it on your site, otherwise not so much) and they will also agree to remove things at the domain owners request. Other libraries might not be so accommodating, specifically the Danish netarchive might not be so accommodating, lets look at some stuff they say - the following is from the already linked survey report:

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