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
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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/>.
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