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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: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:24PM (10 children)
"The US Presidential Election gives you options" Yeah right. Hellary buys out the DNC effectively bumping Bernie out, leaving us the choice between a fucking crazy liar or a Trump. Nice choice!
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:38PM
Classic sales tactic... Give them only a few options, make them think it's their decision.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:42PM (1 child)
#yesthatwasthepoint
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:34PM
In one ear and out the other... just like when my wife talks to me.
(Score: 4, Touché) by meustrus on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:50PM (1 child)
I'm not seeing the difference. Can you help me figure out which one is which?
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @07:36PM
One has a vagina, the other grabs vaginas.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 21 2017, @07:51PM (3 children)
Maybe I was too subtle. But what I was really sarcastically saying is that the two options you get in an election are really no options at all. You get a choice of:
[x] Crazy Liar
[_] Lying lunatic
Pick one
Similarly a junk food vending machine gives you options, which really are no options at all. Inedible crap no matter which button you push.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:45PM (1 child)
I see you marked Crazy Liar.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:11PM
I would proudly vote for the cray liar than the lying lunatic. People who would pick the lying lunatic are ignorant uneducated morons while those who pick the crazy liar are bright and well educated. Furthermore, the lying lunatic voters are violent and need to be pre-emptively resisted by violent means.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:32AM
Of course there were other options, too, it's just that Americans didn't vote for them out of fear of "wasting their vote".
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:03PM
Congratulations on choosing the greater of two evils.