[talk] DNS over TLS

[Pete Wright]

On 9/11/19 6:56 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
> If you haven't heard, Firefox is enabling DOT by default.
>
> I wasn't at the Vixie talk at vBSDCon on Friday, but apparently it is
> worth hearing. We need to get him to speak when he's in NYC.
>
> DOT means no more dns lookups over UDP to the locally configured
> resolvers, but all straight to Cloudflare.
>
> Of course, you have a privacy policy to trust if that's your thing:
>
> https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-privacy/privacy-policy/firefox/
>
> ;)
>
> I think Chrome is doing the same thing.
>
> The OpenBSD Firefox port is turning it off by default, which I hope
> other BSD projects follow that example:
>
> https://marc.info/?t=156794163800002&r=1&w=2
>
> This is the relevant js to change in any user.js config file to never
> use DOT:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver
>
> pref("network.trr.mode", 5);
>
> I have always emphasized the difference between "privacy" and
> "anonymity" as concepts for a reason.  One is about protecting content,
> the other about obscuring metadata.  You can't get privacy, like
> security, through obscurity.  But anonymity is all about obscurity, ie,
> hiding and being lost in the larger universe. Privacy is valued by
> data-mining firms to protect "their" users from others, but they want to
> privacly data mine their own users.
>
> It's great when ugly privacy-attacking practices are just knobs to
> switch off, but that's not much consolation in this arms race.
>
> Maybe high-time I do another "Run a BSD Tor Node" meeting again? ;)

I came across this presentation today by Bert Hubert on this which i 
think is worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjin3nv8jAo

-pete


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Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA

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