This DNS over HTTP thing

Tue Oct 1 19:22:31 UTC 2019

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
> To: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen at massar.ch>

>> While the 'connection to the recursor' is 'encrypted', the recursor
>> is still in clear text... one just moves who can see what you are
>> doing with this.
> 
> As with any cryptographic protocol. Same thing with VPNs, SSH and
> whatever: the remote end can see what you do. What's your point?

I'm still assimilating this, but based on what I've read this half hour,
his point is that "*it's none of Alphabet's damn business* where I go that
isn't Google".

I concur.

I see no reasonable justification for this from a network engineering
standpoint, and I'll be stomping on it wherever necessary.

Cheers,
-- jra
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