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posted by martyb on Friday June 26 2020, @11:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the defeating-the-purpose-(DoH!) dept.

Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. Comcast to handle DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox-using subscribers

Comcast has agreed to be the first home broadband internet provider to handle secure DNS-over-HTTPS queries for Firefox browser users in the US, Mozilla has announced.

This means the ISP, which has joined Moz's Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Program, will perform domain-name-to-IP-address lookups for subscribers using Firefox via encrypted HTTPS channels. That prevents network eavesdroppers from snooping on DNS queries or meddling with them to redirect connections to malicious webpages.

[...] At some point in the near future, Firefox users subscribed to Comcast will use the ISP's DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers by default, though they can opt to switch to other secure DNS providers or opt-out completely.

[...] Incredibly, DNS-over-HTTPS was heralded as a way to prevent, among others, ISPs from snooping on and analyzing their subscribers' web activities to target them with adverts tailored to their interests, or sell the information as a package to advertisers and industry analysts. And yet, here's Comcast providing a DNS-over-HTTPS service for Firefox fans, allowing it to inspect and exploit their incoming queries if it so wishes. Talk about a fox guarding the hen house.

ISPs "have access to a stream of a user’s browsing history," Marshall Erwin, senior director of trust and security at, er, Mozilla, warned in November. "This is particularly concerning in light of the rollback of the broadband privacy rules, which removed guardrails for how ISPs can use your data. The same ISPs are now fighting to prevent the deployment of DNS-over-HTTPS."

Mozilla today insisted its new best buddy Comcast is going to play nice and follow the DNS privacy program's rules.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @12:44AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @12:44AM (#1013054)

    Obligatory hiring people based on skin color instead of qualifications is racism, you racist dickbag.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @01:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @01:16AM (#1013063)

    Not if you're doing it to fuck the white man. #BLM

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:56AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:56AM (#1013146)

    Maybe if you and your community weren't racist assholes pushing harmful policies, disenfranchising minority voters, and cheering on police brutality THEN we could get rid of affirmative action.

    AA is a lame solution to a big problem, but assholes like yourself are busy saying there is no problem while police continue to murder and minorities are still screwed out of their Constitutional rights.

    But sure, be a whiny little bitch and take no responsibility for your community or your shitty beliefs which prevent you from getting jobs with reasonable people.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @05:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @05:41PM (#1013312)

      "racist" is a loaded term, which assumes that being a racialist is a bad thing. No matter who uses it, the underlying propaganda (that protecting or promoting your race is wrong) is still being re-enforced. The people who devised this propaganda won't be mixing their genes, but if you don't, you're evil.

      I don't want to live in a multicultural society, but while i still do, i have no desire for races other than my own to be treated *unfairly*. "Unfairly" does not mean i agree to be stolen from to "help" someone else. I don't owe other races anything and i will use overwhelming, merciless force to protect my/my people's holdings.

      Police murder whites more than anyone else, and we are all slaves in the government and their henchmen's eyes: not just "minorities" (another propaganda term). People who cower to federal anti-discrimination law are not "reasonable people" but simply dumb, brainwashed slaves. I've hired people of different races, but it's always been based on merit and what the business needs, not what some globalist communist tells me to do. Now i prefer to do business with my own people when possible. If that causes someone else somewhere to have less, that is not my fucking problem.

      Assuming you're white, you better educate yourself on Jewish Supremacy, The Holodomor, the truth about ww2, and the White Genocide which is well under way now, while you still can. You think the people you are so worried about give a shit about you? Just look at what happens at the protests, chaz/chop, etc to get a glimpse of your future, Right before they chop your white head off, of course.