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looks interesting ... |
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I think many ISP's use DNS to manage/direct traffic internally so will |
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this bypass or break parts of their network for the google DNS user? |
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off the top of my head, the explanations I have seen give a reasonable |
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approach to security of your footprints as you travel the Internet - but |
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what they don't say is what happens if a legal entity requests the data |
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- all bets are off then I think. |
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Google is a data aggregator - they already have your emails if even one |
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of the respondents you send to use a google a/c (and you may not even |
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know if there are redirects to a google a/c for a user) - how much more |
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do you want them to know? They know your search requests and have |
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access to data from many other sources as well - google toolbar |
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anyone :) |
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On the other side of the coin, they (and their partners) already pool a |
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huge amount of information in such a way as to be almost impossible to |
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avoid and use the Internet at all productively so I think your only |
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protection is to be very careful what you say and do in public and |
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private communications as you just do not know who is listening. |
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If you are using something like Tor to muddy your tracks, could using |
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google DNS give enough clues to hobble Tor? - not sure. Though they |
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(Tor) must have covered this I think. |
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Note that I am not thinking "security" organizations here - though I |
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think google and their competitors must be a data source too good to |
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ignore, but commercial services like targeted advertising, SPAM and |
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other objectionable practices. Its not small scale data collection (one |
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company) data collection that concerns me, but googles global reach and |
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aggregation of data. |
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Billk |
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On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 18:11 -0800, walt wrote: |
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> I just found out that google is offering its DNS servers to the public |
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> for free. as usual. |
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> I know that anyone can use any DNS server that's exposed to the internet, |
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> also for free, so what's the big deal about google? |
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> Well, they say that their DNS servers are more resistant to cache poisoning |
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> and other disgusting forms of toxicity: |
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> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/security.html |
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> Any comments from you security geeks out there? |
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