I was surprised at all the media attention given to the DNSChanger thing last week. I even did a radio spot about it — even though the DNS turnoff affected just 0.015% of computers on the internet.
Just in case you missed it, read the Wikipedia article and Paul Vixie’s first-hand account of swapping in the good DNS servers to replace the criminals’.
The radio spot was last Monday night on ABC Local Radio across NSW with host Dom Knight.
Here’s almost all of the audio recording. There’s an annoying gap around 50 seconds in, and what’s missing is my explanation of the internet’s domain name system (DNS). So if you don’t know what that is, read this first.
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The audio is of course ©2012 Australian Broadcasting Corporation, archived here because it isn’t being archived anywhere else.