This DNS over HTTP thing

Wed Oct 2 23:08:07 UTC 2019

On Wednesday, 2 October, 2019 14:52, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

>I think in the outside world you'll find very little support for an
>argument that filtering DNS is fundamentally broken.

Well, it is certainly trivial to bypass.  Therefore it is a fantastic tools for tyrants and other fuckwads -- just as long as they think they are being effective, who really gives a rats ass.

>Sure, you can do it in broken ways, but it's going to be really hard
>to persuade anyone that their lives are better if they have unfiltered
>access to the malware links in their spam.

Having unfiltered access to the malware installed by links in spam is a self-limiting problem.  Remove the DNS blocks and in rather short order the problem will go away as all the idiots click their way to oblivion.

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