John Lange wrote:
>>From the RFC-draft:
> 
> "which reveal sensitive information about the
>    querying agent when requests are sent"
> 
> Can you be more specific?

Unlike most DNS services ENUM requests contain the sort of information
that the NSA and telcos were caught up in the previous couple of years.
Of late we have implemented our own name server software so we felt
compelled to extend this to encrypt DNS requests and replies. We can
only assume the only reason that the NSA is the only government spy
agency that has made the news is because they were the only ones to get
caught, not because they are the only ones doing it, or if others aren't
doing it now they most likely will be within the next decade or so.

Besides the obvious government spy efforts, even if you have nothing to
hide from any government, at least at this point in time, that doesn't
mean you don't want to hide or conceal your personal information from
your neighbours, employers, employees, your business competitors or
whoever the list can really go on and is unique to our own situations
and what it is we're doing that we don't want others to know we're
doing. No matter what you are doing there is bound to be someone you
don't want sticking their nose into your business. After all, if we
weren't worried about everyone knowing everything occurring in our lives
we wouldn't put curtains up in our houses.

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