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Re:Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:10PM (#25354887)
This isn't new to DoH. Malware has used alternatives to DNS for getting command & control server IPs for decades. IRC used to be common, for example.
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Re:Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH by iso947 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:21PM (#25365233)
IRC easilly slotted and controlled.
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Re:Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:02PM (#25369121)
Yes. Which is why it's no longer as popular. The point is that malicious actors have never followed the system's preferences on how to look up server IPs, so why the hell should they start now? DNS blocking hasn't worked up to now, why complain that it's suddenly broken?
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