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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-everyone-else-on-the-network dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service today and roll out the change across the United States in the coming weeks.

"Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users," Firefox maker Mozilla said in an announcement scheduled to go live at this link Tuesday morning. "The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to confirm no major issues are discovered as this new protocol is enabled for Firefox's US-based users."

DNS over HTTPS helps keep eavesdroppers from seeing what DNS lookups your browser is making, potentially making it more difficult for Internet service providers or other third parties to monitor what websites you visit. As we've previously written, Mozilla's embrace of DNS over HTTPS is fueled in part by concerns about ISPs monitoring customers' Web usage. Mobile broadband providers were caught selling their customers' real-time location data to third parties, and Internet providers can use browsing history to deliver targeted ads.

Wireless and wired Internet providers are suing the state of Maine to stop a Web-browsing privacy law that would require ISPs to get customers' opt-in consent before using or sharing browsing history and other sensitive data. The telecom companies already convinced Congress and President Trump to eliminate a similar federal law in 2017.

Also at:
Mozilla Blog
The Register

Previously:
Firefox Begins Enabling DNS-over-HTTPS for Users


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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:43PM (5 children)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:43PM (#962905)

    Is there a command line tool on linux to resolve a hostname via HTTPS (like dig)? (I do not mean a full DNS resolver like stubby)

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by nicdoye on Wednesday February 26 2020, @04:03PM (1 child)

    by nicdoye (3908) on Wednesday February 26 2020, @04:03PM (#962915) Homepage

    https://github.com/picatz/doh [github.com]
    https://github.com/curl/doh [github.com]

    Probably more.

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    • (Score: 1, Troll) by edIII on Thursday February 27 2020, @01:45AM

      by edIII (791) on Thursday February 27 2020, @01:45AM (#963268)

      Any more that are NOT on github? I'd prefer something non-Microsoft myself.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @10:38PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @10:38PM (#963188)

    No, but odds are Poettering is considering including that as a feature in systemd

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @02:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @02:02AM (#963277)

      No, but odds are Poettering is considering including that as a feature in systemd

      God Damnit. That isn't even a troll post these days as much as I wish it was.

      I have zero doubt that little shit is definitely considering it, assuming he hasn't already started.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @08:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @08:22PM (#963711)

      Yeah right. They'll never do this. It would be like it taking over core system functionally that has nothing to do with init, like cron or home directory control. Stop hanging crap on them. No doubt they are defecating a lot of time making systemd a lean mean initializing machine.