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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:16AM (1 child)
No, it isn't. A hostname also is no URI, and no URL (although URLs tend to contain hostnames, but that is not required). Indeed, hostnames are much older than URLs/URIs/URNs.
Also, a hostname doesn't identify a resource, but a host. There may or may not be a resource hosted on that host. Or there may be several resources hosted there. It doesn't matter.
Here comes the nitpicking:
Actually we are talking about FQDNs (Fully Qualified Domain Names). Strictly speaking, the hostname is only the first component of that, and while there can be arbitrary many hosts with the same hostname, the FQDN should be unique.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:26AM
FUCK!!! I hate it when I'm out-pedant'd :)
Didn't notice that hostname part. I was *thinking* about FQDN too, but didn't use the term. The way I've been setting up servers lately is to use a FQDN for the hostname, so you caught me getting lazy...
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.