Thanks to Unbound, the built-in DNS resolver, which has been enabled by default since pfSense version 2.3, makes configuring DNS over TLS a very simple task with pfSense.
Daily Archives: 23. März 2025
Untersuchung: Wie sicher sind unsere Internet-Router?
(July 1, 2020)
„Fast ein Drittel der Router haben eine Version, die seit neun Jahren nicht mehr mit Updates versorgt wird.“
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AVM macht immerhin einmal im Jahr ein Update. Auch das ist zwar völlig unzureichend, aber immer noch besser als ein neun Jahre altes System. Tatsächlich wären wöchentliche Updates notwendig, die automatisch ausgeführt werden, ohne dass der Nutzer aktiv werden muss. Das wäre ideal, aber es passiert nicht.
Known DNS Providers
Here we suggest a list of trusted DNS providers.
What is DNS over TLS?
DNS over TLS (DoT) is a protocol for the encrypted transmission of DNS (Domain Name System) queries. Name resolution on the Internet is typically transmitted unencrypted via UDP. With DoT, however, the assignment of domains and the associated IP addresses is encrypted using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. This protects the transmission from interception, manipulation and man-in-the-middle attacks.
DNS over TLS: Definition
DoT is the standard (RFC 7858) proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for fortifying DNS connections. In contrast to conventional DNS requests, DoT establishes a secure TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connection between the client and the DNS server, which is authenticated and encrypted using TLS.
How to Change DNS Servers on Most Popular Routers
(Updated on March 12, 2022)
Change DNS Server on Linksys
Change DNS Server on a NetGear Router
Change DNS Server on D-Link
Change DNS Server on Asus
Change DNS Server on TP-Link
Change DNS Server on Cisco
Change DNS Server on TRENDnet
Change DNS Server on Belkin
Change DNS Server on Buffalo
Change DNS Server on Google Wifi
dnscheck.tools – inspect your dns resolvers
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Brief History of the Domain Name System
Jan. 7, 1958 – President Eisenhower requested funds to start ARPA.
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– Early 1967 – Meeting of ARPA’s principal investigators in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Roberts (the director of the IPTO) put forward the idea of a computer network. Wes Clark introduced the idea of a subnetwork: small, identical computers all interconnected – “interface message processors (IMPs).” Engelbert volunteered to the Network Information Center (NIC).
– 1967 – Roberts published paper on ARPANET.
– End of 1967 – The Association for Computing Machinery’s computer conference in Gatliburg, Tennessee. Roberts presented his first paper on ARPANET and heard of work done by Donald Davies’ team at NPL and Paul Baran at RAND.
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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.
Your router‘s security stinks: Here‘s how to fix it
(January 23, 2023)
Then, there‘s networking port 32764, which French security researcher Eloi Vanderbeken in 2013 discovered had been quietly left open on gateway routers sold by several major brands.
Using port 32764, anyone on a local network — which includes a user‘s ISP — could take full administrative control of a router, and even perform a factory reset, without a password.
The port was closed on most affected devices following Vanderbeken‘s disclosures, but he later found that it could easily be reopened with a specially designed data packet that could be sent from an ISP.
„This is so obviously done by a spy agency, it‘s amazing,“ Horowitz said. „It was deliberate, no doubt about it.“
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Change the router‘s Domain Name System (DNS) server from the ISP‘s own server…
The Wizard Of Oz (1939) If I only had a Brain
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A.I. Generating Dreams & Turning Wi-Fi Routers Into Cameras to See Through Walls
Jul 3, 2023
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aging the latest paper the one that
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happened even after this which is
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already better uses stable diffusion
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uses the thing that you use to make art
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like what should a thing that you use to
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make art have anything to do with
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reading your brain but of course it goes
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further so in this one they said can
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they understand
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um the inner monologue the things you‘re
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saying to yourself in your own mind my
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dude by the way when you dream your
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dream like your visual cortex runs in
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Reverse so your dreams are no longer
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safe
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um but we‘ll try this so they had people
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watch a video and just narrate what was
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going on in the video in their mind so
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there‘s a woman she gets hit in the back
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she falls over this is what the computer
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reconstructed the person thinking
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see a girl looks just like me get hit in
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the back and then she is knocked off
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so our thoughts like are starting to be
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decoded
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yeah just think about what this means
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for authoritarian States for instance
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or if you want to generate images that
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maximally activate your pleasure sensor
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anything else okay but let‘s keep going
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right to really get the sense of the
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combinatorics of this how about can we
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go from Wi-Fi radio signals you know
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sort of like the Wi-Fi routers in your
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house they‘re bouncing off radio signals
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that work sort of like sonar can you go
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from that to where human beings are to
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images so what they did is they had
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um you know a camera looking at a space
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with people in it
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um that‘s sort of like coming in from
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one eye the other eye is the radio
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signals so sonar from the Wi-Fi router
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and they just learn to predict like this
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is where the human beings are then they
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took away the camera so all the AI had
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was the language of radio signals
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bouncing around a room and this is what
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they‘re able to reconstruct
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Real Time 3D pose estimation right so
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suddenly AI has turned every Wi-Fi
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router into a camera that can work in
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the dark specially tuned for tracking
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living beings
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already
Researchers Use WiFi To See Through Walls
Dec 22, 2015
X-ray vision _ a comic book fantasy for decades _ is becoming a reality in a lab. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls.
Wi-Vi: See through Walls with Wi-Fi signals
Jun 2, 2013
Wi-Vi is a new technology that enables seeing through walls using Wi-Fi signals. The video shows the output of Wi-Vi (blue window) when a person moves around in a room. It can track whether there is a moving human inside the room and how he is moving.
Is Your Router Spying on You?
(January 7, 2025)
What’s probably the most interesting aspect of the sudden focus on WiFi routers is that security experts have been complaining for years that most routers on the market have shoddy security measures and are easy to hack. Perhaps one outcome of the sudden focus on routers will be new government rules demanding better security for all devices.
It’s always a little hard to distinguish politics from reality. Politicians are suddenly lining up to dump on the Chinese, which is easy to do for an issue with no domestic political backlash.
Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands
(February 1, 2024)
The US Justice Department said Wednesday that the FBI surreptitiously sent commands to hundreds of infected small office and home office routers to remove malware China state-sponsored hackers were using to wage attacks on critical infrastructure.
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The takedown disclosed Wednesday isn’t the first time the FBI has issued commands to infected devices without the owners’ knowledge ahead of time. In 2021, authorities executed [justice.gov] a similar action to disinfect Microsoft Exchange servers that had been compromised by a different China-state group tracked as Hafnium.
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In 2018, researchers reported that more than 500,000 SOHO routers had been compromised [arstechnica.com] by sophisticated malware [arstechnica.com] dubbed VPNFilter. The mass hack was later revealed to be an operation by a Russian-state group tracked as Sofacy. In that event, the FBI issued an advisory urging people to restart their routers [arstechnica.com] to remove any possible infections. The agency also seized [arstechnica.com] a domain used to control VPNFilter.
Foreign intelligence services use corporate and personal network routers for cyber espionage
(March 10, 2021)
Supo has noticed an increase in cyber espionage exploiting Finnish infrastructure. The cyber espionage divisions of intelligence services in authoritarian states in particular have exploited dozens of network devices and servers operated by individuals and businesses in Finland by linking them into an infrastructure used for espionage.
This involves routing intelligence service operation traffic through a Finnish network device, so that the attack on the organisation targeted by espionage appears to come from an organisation or a private individual in Finland.
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Supo recommends ensuring that you have taken at least the following steps to improve the security of your router:
– Block external access to the router control panel from the Internet.
– Change the default password so that it is as long as possible and hard to guess. The recommended password length is at least 20 characters.
– Close any open ports on the router that you do not need to use.
– Always update the router firmware to the latest version.
Number of internet users worldwide from 2005 to 2024
As of 2024, the estimated number of internet users worldwide was 5.5 billion, up from 5.3 billion in the previous year. This share represents 68 percent of the global population.
1984 – By George Orwell
A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
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From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect. In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.
A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being in-
spected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized. Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected.
George Orwell -1984
Eine herrschende Gruppe ist so lange eine herrschende Gruppe, als sie ihre Nachfolger bestimmen kann. Der Partei geht es nicht darum, ewig ihr Blut, sondern sich selbst ewig zu behaupten. Wer die Macht ausübt, ist nicht wichtig, vorausgesetzt, daß die hierarchische Struktur immer dieselbe bleibt.
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Von den Proletariern ist nichts zu befürchten. Sich selbst überlassen, werden sie von Generation zu Generation und von Jahrhundert zu Jahrhundert fortfahren zu arbeiten, Kinder in die Welt zu setzen und zu sterben, nicht nur ohne jeden Antrieb, zu rebellieren, sondern ohne sich auch nur vorstellen zu können, daß die Welt anders sein könnte, als sie ist. Zudem sind sie ein geistloser Brei ohne jede Art von Führung. Sie könnten nur gefährlich werden, wenn die fortschreitende Entwicklung der industriellen Technik es notwendig machen sollte, ihnen eine höhere Erziehung angedeihen zu lassen; aber da die militärische und merkantile Konkurrenz keine Bedeutung mehr hat, ist das Niveau der öffentlichen Erziehung im Sinken begriffen.
Welche Ansichten die Massen vertreten oder nicht vertreten, wird als belanglos angesehen. Man darf ihnen getrost geistige Freiheit einräumen, denn sie haben keinen Geist. Andererseits kann bei einem Parteimitglied auch nicht die kleinste Meinungsabweichung in der unbedeutendsten Frage geduldet werden. Ein Angehöriger der Partei lebt von der Geburt bis zum Tode unter den Augen der Gedankenpolizei. Sogar wenn er allein ist, kann er nie sicher sein, ob er wirklich allein ist. Wo er auch sein mag, ob er schläft oder wacht, arbeitet oder ausruht, in seinem Bad oder in seinem Bett liegt, kann er ohne Warnung und ohne zu wissen, daß er beobachtet wird, beobachtet werden. Nichts, was er tut, ist gleichgültig. Seine Freundschaften, seine Zerstreuungen, sein Benehmen gegen seine Frau und seine Kinder, sein Gesichtsausdruck, wenn er allein ist, die von ihm im Schlaf gemurmelten Worte, sogar die ihm eigentümlichen Bewegungen seines Körpers, alles wird einer peinlich genauen Prüfung unterzogen. Nicht nur jedes wirkliche Vergehen, sondern jede Schrullenhaftigkeit, sie mag noch so unbedeutend sein, jede Gewohnheitsänderung, jede nervöse Absonderlichkeit, die möglicherweise das Symptom eines inneren Kampfes ist, können unweigerlich entdeckt werden.
‚NETANYAHU has CHOSEN DEATH,‘ says relative of hostage in TEL AVIV
The families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas on Saturday (March 22) called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a new hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza.
50,000 killed in Gaza since start of Israel-Hamas war, health ministry says
Authorities in Gaza do not distinguish between civilians and Hamas fighters when reporting casualty figures, but the health ministry and the United Nations say the majority of deaths are women and children. And the true toll could be much higher, with many thousands believed to still be under the rubble.
Zehntausende Israelis protestieren gegen Regierung
Zehntausende Menschen haben am Samstag in Tel Aviv und anderen Orten in Israel gegen die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanyahu protestiert. Sie erinnerten an die im Gazastreifen festgehaltenen Geiseln und warfen Netanyahus Regierung vor, mit dem Wiederaufflammen der Kämpfe in dem Küstenstreifen die Geiseln massiv zu gefährden. Die Wut der Demonstranten entlud sich auch über die von der Regierung beschlossene Entlassung des Inlandsgeheimdienstchefs Ronen Bar.
“If Oct 7 gov‘t doesn‘t comply with Supreme Court ruling, it‘ll become a criminal gov‘t. We won‘t be extras in Bibi‘s theatre of madness.In such a case, the economy must go on strike, we‘ll organize a tax revolt- oppose all forms of refusal-we‘ll not be collaborators in the destruction of democracy”
Israelis protest against Bibi in Tel Aviv.
The government of Bibi is not the same as people of Israel.
Israel anti-government protests flare after dismissal of top security agency chief
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s government to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and resume fighting in Gaza.
Netanyahu said this week he had lost confidence in Ronen Bar, who has led Shin Bet since 2021, and intended to fire him effective April 10, prompting three days of protests.
Die Generalstaatsanwältin Gali Baharav-Miara ist Netanyahus gefährlichste Kontrahentin – nun will er sie loswerden
Ihre Gegner sagen häufig einfach nur abfällig «die Frau», wenn sie Gali Baharav-Miara meinen. Als könnten sie weder den Namen noch den Beruf der 65-jährigen Generalstaatsanwältin über die Lippen bringen; als wäre ihre Existenz eine einzige Zumutung. Andere beschimpfen sie als Volksfeindin oder drohen ihr mit dem Tod.
Government seeking to operate ‘above the law,’ AG charges ahead of no-confidence vote
“The [no-confidence] motion does not seek to advance trust but rather loyalty to the political echelon, not governability but rather unlimited regime power, as part of a broader process to weaken the judicial branch and deter the entire professional echelon,” charged Baharav Miara, referring to the government’s ongoing contentious judicial overhaul program.
Government to begin impeachment of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara
After the expected vote of no confidence on Sunday, the case will be passed on to a selection committee chaired by former Supreme Court president Asher Grunis. This committee could include Foreign Minister Gideon Sa‘ar or Knesset (Israeli parliament) Speaker Amir Ohana as former justice ministers, although this may be contested in the Supreme Court as either personalities are part of the current coalition.
Pope Francis calls for an end to ‚heavy bombing in Gaza‘
As he prepares to return to the Vatican after his hospitalization and treatment for bilateral pneumonia, Pope Francis renews his call for peace, urging an end to violence in Gaza and other conflict zones and expresses his gratitude for global efforts towards dialogue, especially in the South Caucasus.
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This Sunday, just before his programmed return to Casa Santa Marta to begin two months of convalescence, Pope Francis prayed for the people of Palestine, writing, “I am saddened by the resumption of heavy Israeli bombing on the Gaza Strip, causing many deaths and injuries. I call for an immediate halt to the weapons; and for the courage to resume dialogue, so that all hostages may be released and a final ceasefire reached”.
Welcome home Holy Father!
38 days have gone by since February 14, when Pope Francis left the Vatican to be hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital.
These weeks have been challenging for an 88-year-old patient battling bilateral pneumonia. Medical reports did not downplay the severity of his condition, the crises he endured, or the complexity of his clinical picture.
Yet, throughout this time, he was surrounded by an outpouring of prayers for his recovery: personal prayers, the prayers of communities, rosaries and Eucharistic celebrations. They came not only from Catholics and Christians but also from people of other faiths and those without religious beliefs, who sent him good thoughts and well-wishes. It was for all these people in prayer that today’s brief greeting was wanted and shared.