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Daily Archives: 4. September 2023
Known DNS Providers
Here we suggest a list of trusted DNS providers.
Public DNS Servers by country
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DNS Server Settings: What are they & which is the best DNS server?
(25th August 2023)
While DoH uses the HTTPS infrastructure to encapsulate DNS queries, DNS-over-TLS focuses on utilising the secure TLS protocol directly.
Attackers target the Domain Name System, the internet’s phone book. Here’s how to fight back
(July 14 2023)
DNS over HTTPS, or DoH, and DNS over TLS send these requests over the UDP transport layer, again using encryption. This prevents man-in-the-middle tampering that could be done with unprotected DNS conversations. The TLS version skips the application-layer protocols, which helps hide this traffic even further and offers a slight performance boost as a result.
The birth of the Web
On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. Later, CERN made a release available with an open licence, a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. These actions allowed the web to flourish.
Brief History of the Domain Name System
Jan. 7, 1958 – President Eisenhower requested funds to start ARPA.
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Summer 1975 – The Defense Communications Agency (DCA) took over the management of ARPANET.
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· November 1983 – The rapid growth of the internet caused massive problems in bookkeeping. To deal with this problem a group including Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partrige published RFC 882 which created the domain name system (DNS) to make Internet navigation easier. With DNS, users can type host names such as “USC-ISIF” instead of “10.2.0.52.” Every Address would have information from specific to general.
DNS for dummies – a basic understanding
The Domain Name System (DNS) is like a phone book, in that it is a naming system which translates human recognisable domain names into IP addresses to locate devices across the internet.
Remarks on “Chat Control”
(March 23, 2023)
I am a professor of computer science and a researcher in the field of applied cryptography. On a day-to-day basis this means that I work on the design of encryption systems. Most of what I do involves building things: I design new encryption systems and try to make existing encryption technologies more useful.
Sometimes I and my colleagues also break encryption systems. I wish I could tell you this didn’t happen often, but it happens much more frequently than you’d imagine, and often in systems that have billions of users and that are very hard to fix. Encryption is a very exciting area to work in, but it’s also a young area. We don’t know all the ways we can get things wrong, and we’re still learning.
EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems
(1 February 2023)
The proposed Chat control EU law will not only seize totalitarian control of all private communication. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence.
Chatkontrolle STOPPEN!
Das analoge Äquivalent zum aktuellen Vorschlag wäre unter anderem, dass in jedem Treppenhaus eine Maschine steht, die alle Briefe liest, die wir aus dem Briefkasten geholt haben: Jeden Brief, in der ganzen EU. In Definitionsbiegereien behaupten zwar konservative Sicherheitspolitiker*innen, damit sei die Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung nicht verletzt, weil der Brief ja erst mitgelesen wird, nachdem er aus dem Briefkasten geholt wurde. Faktisch führt es aber zu einer klaren Situation: Noch nie wurde in der EU ein Überwachungsgesetz diskutiert, das die private Kommunikation in derartigem Umfang betroffen hat.
Chat control: incompatible with fundamental rights
Authorities can impose so-called „detection orders“ against providers of interpersonal communications services. This means that authorities can, for example, oblige messenger services to monitor the communications of all their users. It is sufficient that the authority has identified a significant risk that the service in question is being used for the dissemination of depictions of sexual violence against children. Detection orders do not have to be limited to monitoring the communications of specific users who are under suspicion. Instead, authorities can order that the content of all communications of all users of the service be monitored preventively.
Chat Control: Your private messages will be scanned
Whan can be done against this proposed law? It is important that more people know about it. Share the link to this page! Chat with others about it and talk with your representatives in the European Parliament about it (or write a nice e-mail to them).