The Global Cyber Alliance has given the world a new free Domain Name Service resolver, and advanced it as offering unusually strong security and privacy features.
The Quad9 DNS service, at 9.9.9.9, not only turns URIs into IP addresses, but also checks them against IBM X-Force's threat intelligence database. Those checks protect agains landing on any of the 40 billion evil sites and images X-Force has found to be dangerous.
The Alliance (GCA) was co-founded by the City of London Police, the District Attorney of New York County and the Center for Internet Security and styled itself "an international, cross-sector effort designed to confront, address, and prevent malicious cyber activity."
[...] The organisation promised that records of user lookups would not be put out to pasture in data farms: "Information about the websites consumers visit, where they live and what device they use are often captured by some DNS services and used for marketing or other purposes", it said. Quad9 won't "store, correlate, or otherwise leverage" personal information.
[...] If you're one of the lucky few whose ISP offers IPv6, there's a Quad9 resolver for you at 2620:fe::fe (the PCH public resolver).
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/quad9_secure_private_dns_resolver/
takyon: Do you want to give the City of London Police control of your DNS?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:38PM (8 children)
and we are here to help?
Smells pretty fishy to me.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:52PM
City of London [wikipedia.org] is a quasi-government corporate thing. Worse?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by isostatic on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:13PM (4 children)
Randians love to trot that line out. The rest of the world actually trusts the governments we vote in far more than corporations that actually own our lives.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:18PM (3 children)
The governments we vote for are wholly owned, recently acquired subsidiaries of the corporations that own our lives. Regardless of how or whether you vote.
The corps don't have precise control. There's a lot of play in the steering wheel. But it steers well enough to get where we're going.
Any good circus has three rings: executive, legislative, judicial.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:35PM (1 child)
So you think giving the corporations the control directly is better than at least having some influence on those who make the policies?
Maybe you represent one of those corporations and are angry that you don't have precise control over the rules imposed on the
citizensconsumers?(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 21 2017, @07:47PM
I don't advocate giving corporations control. I merely assert that they already own the government whores who will do literally anything for money. The laws be damned. The Constitution be damned. If they get paid to do it, they will find a way.
You can elect different whores, an in the absence of corporate bribes might actually carry out the policy you want. But if what you want is not what the corporations want, then guess who's policy is going to get carried out, no matter who you voted for?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:57PM
Well, assuming you're American, yours is, but only because you would rather indulge yourself than actually work towards improving government.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by stretch611 on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:04PM (1 child)
Even if they log your activities... What are your other choices?
Use OpenDNS? Which logs you and shares the data with Cisco
Use Google's 8.8.8.8 Which logs you but promises to clear identifying information
Use your ISP... Well, we know how honest these guys are... and with the FCC promising the ISPs to remove all restrictions on consumer privacy, this is obviously the worse choice.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:03PM
why are so many people so afraid to set up their own server?
YES it has to go look up stuff on occasion, but the DNS root servers can be used as, you know, your own servers root.
and not even bypass your alternatives, because they too are checking the same DNS root servers. Heck even windows 2003 came with a list of them that are mostly still valid.