On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 09:51, Marius Schwarz <fedoradev(a)cloud-foo.de> wrote:
Am 05.11.19 um 15:17 schrieb Florian Weimer:
> I categorically reject your notion that you can increase privacy by
> sending queries to more servers. As a result, you will end up with a
> larger set of servers you must trust, not a smaller one.
>
You don't need to trust them for your privacy, the more servers
involved, the fewer data they get to profile about you.
Simple mathematics.
Except most of those servers are run by the same 3-4 organizations
which will just use the same datatracking methods they use over other
cloud apps to figure out what X is doing. Currently the
8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 are thousands of DNS servers which also have other ip
addresses that are given out by various coffee shops and other
devices. The same with the 1.1.1.1 and probably a dozen other single
IP servers.
To an extend in bandwidth, you could send out parallel queries and
check, if they match or if someone has tampered
with them. Would be a nice sideeffect.
This breaks down for multiple reasons.
I do a parallel query and I get two different answers.. it isn't
because they are tampered with but because the DNS server got a GEOIP
regional address and so each server got one that was closest. However
this also leads to consolidation because a lot of DNS servers aren't
spec'd to dealing with more traffic than local DNS. Getting lots of
outside traffic ends up causing problems and links. So instead you get
a deal with Google/CloudFare/Akamai/etc to put in a DNS server which
they then offer to the public for a bit and you mostly. Tada.. person
on the internet thinks they spread out and aren't tracked but are just
as much as before.
best regards,
Marius
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora Code of Conduct:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
--
Stephen J Smoogen.