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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the DNS=Do-Not-Share dept.

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Android, the world's most popular mobile operating system, will soon enable a security protocol that helps keep internet service providers (ISPs) from spying on users. "DNS over TLS" adds a level of encryption to your DNS requests that are (mostly) inaccessible by your ISP.

[...] Using current methods, the requests happen through UDP or TCP protocols, not the more secure TLS. When Android makes the switch, you'll get the same results, only now with HTTPS-level security. That is to say, snoops now know when you've connected to a website, but not which one. Pornhub, for example, is the same as Gmail. Or, it is for the person spying on you. You'll still have to live with the fact you're watching Pokemon Go porn (safe-ish for work).

Source: https://thenextweb.com/mobile/2017/10/23/android-to-add-dns-over-tls-to-keep-isps-from-spying-on-you/


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:48AM (2 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:48AM (#587706)

    In the grand tradition of not RTFA'ing before I comment:

    No, you'd only hit the ISP's DNS server with the request for the VPN endpoint, if that. After that, all your DNS would happily be encrypted all the way to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 so the ISP can't spy on you, and Google gets credit for preventing the ISP from doing so, all the while seeing eeeeeverything you do.

    Great feature.

    Hopefully the VPN and remote DNS would be configurable, but I would not be surprised if they aren't.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @05:05AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @05:05AM (#587708)

    If you are already using VPN, additional encryption would be even more pointless. It's simply replacing ISP with VPN provider for snooper.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @07:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @07:17AM (#587733)

      Then pick a better VPN provider. Your choice of ISP is more limited and they have shown themselves to be more likely to snoop.