Every now and then there’s news from Washington, D.C. that changes the way folks live…in a good way. That was the case last week when the federal government declared that by the end of this year, it will require that government agencies deploy DNSSEC, the Domain Name System Security Extensions to protect end-users on the Internet. This is a means of assuring that the “address book” of the Internet is accurate, thus keeping evildoers from hijacking websites and defrauding site visitors. More...