Re:Sinkholed
by ulrikrasmussen on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:48AM
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That also has its downsides though. For starters, it would no longer be possible to take down domains used for controlling botnets.
That's a similar nonsense as is the broad-scale surveilence to prevent terrorism. Botnets can already build a decentralized store of IP addresses, bypassing public DNS completely. Centralization makes some people, organizations or state just too much powerful.
Re:Sinkholed
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:17PM
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Intelligent botnet authors will switch to the decentralized options once they are widely available and stable. While I think there's limited benefit to decentralization for any use case I care about, I don't think centralization is going to stop this trend in the medium term.
Re:Sinkholed
by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @02:29PM
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The GNU Name System https://gnunet.org/en/use.html already has a distributed DNS-like system built out.
This does not look like something my grandma would use.
Re:Sinkholed
by Karrot_Kream on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:57PM
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I don't think she has to. As long as your ISPs run GNS themselves, and offer you DNS via DHCP, then you can just forego the ISP DNS server and drop in your own local GNS. Mount .com and the other TLDs you want from direct from ISP off their pubkey, and overwrite the TLDs you don't care much for.
The internet in general is infrastructure, and protocols that are increasingly controlled by governments and organizations in bed with governments.