Firefox Promises UK Government DNS-Over-HTTPS Won't Be Default in UK

'"Despite looking to make DNS-over-HTTPS the default for its American
users, Mozilla has assured culture secretary Nicky Morgan that this
won't be the case in the UK," reports Gizmodo:

DNS-over-HTTPS has been fairly controversial, with the Internet
Services Providers Association nominating Mozilla for an 'Internet
Villain' over the whole thing, saying it will "bypass UK filtering
obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety
standards in the UK."

In his letter to Morgan, Mozilla vice president of global policy,
trust and security, Alan Davidson, stressed that the company "has no
plans to turn on our DNS-over-HTTPS feature by default in the United
Kingdom and will not do so without further engagement with public and
private stakeholders". He did add that Mozilla does "strongly believe
that DNS-over-HTTPS would offer real security benefits to UK citizens.
The DNS is one of the oldest parts of the internet's architecture, and
remains largely untouched by efforts to make the web more secure.

"Because current DNS requests are unencrypted, the road that connects
your citizens to their online destination is still open and used by
bad actors looking to violate user privacy, attack communications, and
spy on browsing activity. People's most personal information, such as
their health-related data, can be tracked, collected, leaked and used
against people's best interest. Your citizens deserve to be protected
from that threat."'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/29/0434233

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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