Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error
For the past decade, millions of emails destined for .mil US military addresses were actually directed at .ml addresses, that being the top-level domain for the African nation of Mali, it's claimed.
It starts with Johannes Zuurbier, the boss of Amsterdam-based Mali Dili, which manages Mali's top-level country domain. After noticing a good number of DNS requests for Malian domains that didn't exist, such as army.ml and navy.ml, Zuurbier set up a system to catch emails destined for these addresses.
the Financial Times, he's collected some 117,000 missives. The fear is that some miscreant or other could soon enough register .ml domains that correspond to .mil domains, and harvest all the lost mail.When asked why the problem was allowed to go on for so long, the US Department of Defense toldit was aware of the issue, and that it takes"all unauthorized disclosures of Controlled National Security Information or Controlled Unclassified Information seriously.
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