Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se...
by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:30AM
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I’ve been thinking about installing a proxy with my own root for this reason.
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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se...
by shawnz on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:36AM
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I would not want to use your network if that was the case, and I wonder if you similarly would use someone else's network if it was configured like that. I don't think network operators who provide access to the Internet can realistically expect to control what their users do on the Internet, unless the network operator is also the administrator of those workstations.
Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se...
by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:39AM
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Maybe, but my rule is: my home network, my rules. I can’t really do this invisibly anyways: any device I don’t control will get certificate validation errors.
Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se...
by syshum on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:05PM
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The problem here is even the device owner is not the "administrator" of the device as we have lost ownership rights, locked behind EULA's, Patents and copyright
The point of the original story is "your" meaning a device you own, is ignoring your network controls
it is highly unlikely that the TV manufacturer is going to allow me to install my own custom root certs to inspect their traffic to HTTPS, so yes DoH and other things are a threat to network security, because if the TV become compromised I have limited administrative controls to prevent it other the blocking it completely which is a poor response to the problem
DoH is a solution in search of a problem that can be solves in better more user friendly ways