Recall the web as once we knew it before the financiers and crims took over? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/dyn_dns_ddos_explained/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/dns_devastation_as_dyn_dies_under_de... David Gibson, VP of strategy at Varonis, noted: "Like many of our aging technologies, DNS wasn’t built with security in mind… DNS is one of the aging technologies the industry is struggling to update, along with one-factor authentication and unencrypted web connections – the list is very long, and the stakes have never been higher." Craig Young, a security researcher at Tripwire, added to the general concern: "As with most software designs from the 1980s, security was generally not considered when creating DNS. Because the web is so dependent on this system, it becomes a very visible point of failure as is the case today with service provider Dyn."