Re: Firefox Will Soon Encrypt DNS Requests By Default
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:52:14 +1200
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato |
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| Organization | Geek Central |
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 08:57:51 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted: > 'The team is watching out for > potential abuses, though, and will "revisit" its approach if attackers > use a canary domain to disable the technology.' The “canary domain” is a special indicator agreed on between Mozilla and outfits that offer parental-control systems; if Firefox detects that this domain is blocked, then that means parental controls are in effect, so the DNS-over-HTTPS system is disabled for that user. More here <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/09/mozilla_firefox_dns/>. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list -- [email protected] | To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Unsubscribe: %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s