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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the promise-we-won't-peek dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by stretch611 on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:04PM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:04PM (#599705)

    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.

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    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:03PM (#599756)

    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.