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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 04 2019, @08:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-dare-anyone-lie-to-congress dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry's lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome.

The Internet providers' fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers' Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent today to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives committees. Mozilla also said that Internet providers have been giving inaccurate information to lawmakers and urged Congress to "publicly probe current ISP data collection and use policies."

DNS over HTTPS helps keep eavesdroppers from seeing what DNS lookups your browser is making. This can make it more difficult for ISPs or other third parties to monitor what websites you visit.

"Unsurprisingly, our work on DoH [DNS over HTTPS] has prompted a campaign to forestall these privacy and security protections, as demonstrated by the recent letter to Congress from major telecommunications associations. That letter contained a number of factual inaccuracies," Mozilla Senior Director of Trust and Security Marshall Erwin wrote.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @11:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @11:15PM (#916015)

    "A program" which a regular user would not even know about, let alone be able to properly configure, will be used only by a tiny minority. As a consequence, any action against that program, the protocol, and its users, will go through unopposed. Which rather defeats the whole purpose.
    Common browser (Chrome) using a common protocol (HTTPS) to a common endpoint (Cloudflare) on the other hand, is where breaking it is "breaking the Internet" for the masses, which isn't yet commonly done. A separate program like you want, could well exist alongside it, and hide in the noise; but its attempting to stand alone will be the very essence of pointless.