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Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
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[–] 104 points 3 years ago (12 children)

Using .ml was stupid in the first place. No need to try to be a special snowflake by using a sketchy TLD.

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's one of the 5 TLD (now 4 I guess) that are free. The others being .tk, .ga, .cf and .gq

    We need free TLDs.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I wonder if it was done on purpose after it came out that the Pentagon had typo'd ".ml" instead of '.mil' and exposed a lot of sensitive emails...

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Highly doubtful much of anything majorly sensitive got leaked. Firstly even unclassified DoD emails are encrypted by default. Secondly anything classified isn't even on a network that can talk to normal email, it's either 100% point to point encrypted or on an airgapped network. If I hopped on SIPR (DoD Secret-level internet) and emailed a normal email address it simply wouldn't work.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Ehhhhh, you're missing the human element. Humans do dumb shit all the time. You can't stop someone from reading something with their eyeballs, remembering it in their meat brain, and using their sausage fingers to type it back into something unsecured. Odds are still low of course, but I wouldn't be so confident.

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