> On 2020/Jan/16, at 5:54 pm, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even with some form of secure & encrypted DNS from clients to trusted 
> servers, ISPs could still see each web-page URL with the host name replaced 
> by its resolved address.  

That'd be very bad security.  As I understand it, the encrypted stream is 
established first, then the URL sent encrypted.  To do it the other way would 
be a security breach.

> So the security agencies could still monitor an agent of interest, but 
> selling users' browsing history would probably involve too much work to be 
> worthwhile.


A sensible "agent of interest" would be using a VPN no?

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