On 4/28/20 1:10 AM, ac via talk wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:31:50 -0400
Gordon Chillcott via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon., Apr. 27, 2020, 09:08 James Knott via talk, <[email protected]>
wrote:
I came across this today:
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/cira-officially-launches-free-dns-firewall-for-consumers/429887
https://www.cira.ca/cybersecurity-services/canadian-shield/configure
so... no opinions... no comments... no discussion... just posting
links, multiple times, or doing marketing now, we are?
Ouch.
my not so humble opinion is that dns over https is very evil, even if
done under the guise of "privacy" or "protection/nanny" or "to protect
us" or under any other logic or reasoning.
DNS over https is not in and of itself evil.
If it is used as a way to implement surveillance capitalism then it
becomes evil.
I rather liked the quote from the CIRA CTO “As a non-profit with no
interest in monetizing user data we were able to bring together a group
of great partners who are committed to protecting Canadians
online–including the first-ever national deployment of DNS over HTTPS
globally,”
The only thing missing was the " yet " after the words "no interest".
Somewhere down the line CIRA will likely face a fiscal problem and
suddenly there will be value in that user data that cannot be passed up.
How about DNS over TOR?
my further opinions are that any "nanny" type "free" service where
someone else decides what and where i may or may not go or what i may
or may not see, needs to be either well regulated/controlled/open/published/etc
or simply not be accepted...
Sometimes nannies are good things.
People without the wherewithal or interest in managing their own
security likely are in need of a nanny.
anyway, i am probably a minority as i also do not like/use/support very
popular and world dominating services such as 'whatsapp' and i do not
tweet or post photos of my food on insta and i have zero tiktok vids
I have a feeling your take is not a minority on this list.
so i guess ymmv,
Andre
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