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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: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday November 05 2019, @03:53AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday November 05 2019, @03:53AM (#916115)

    Placing fixed DNS over HTTPS, so even local control of DNS is blocked is bad.

    You have full control over it as a user wanting to switch providers or simply disable it or as an admin wanting to reroute DNS requests to their own enterprise server: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https [mozilla.org]

    DoH has other issues regarding performance and anonymity... But the former is marginal while the latter is yet to be proven and is mostly a theoretical concern relating to piracy content that we can simply wait until it makes it to court before reconsidering.

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