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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:24AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:24AM (#600082) Journal

    The majority of customers is too complacent to even pick up the phone and cut the cord.

    Those customers will continue to use whatever DNS their ISP provides, therefore what this new DNS does is completely irrelevant unless some ISPs start using it as their default DNS server (which I consider unlikely, as that would mean them giving up control). If you are using that alternate DNS server, you are the type of person who actively decides what DNS server you use, and are willing to actually change your computers configuration. And that demogrpahic is exactly the one that will not put up with such measures. No, they probably won't pick up the phone. Instead they will just once again change the DNS settings of their computer or router, to use whatever DNS they then consider the best replacement.

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