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"This is pretty cool because it means that anything that can speak DNS (pretty much everything) could have programmatic access to this data." That scares me.
by devicenull 17y ago
"This is pretty cool because it means that anything that can speak DNS (pretty much everything) could have programmatic access to this data."
That scares me. It then becomes simple for anyone with an internet connection to pull the phone and email addresses of anyone using this. DNS isn't exactly designed to withstand that kind of abuse (You can't block someone, you can't ratelimit someone, etc).
- wibblenut 17y agoYou can encrypt your records. >DNS isn't exactly designed to withstand that kind of abuse (You can't block someone, you can't ratelimit someone, etc). It's hard to take out somebody's nameservers, since there's no single point of failure (unlike with most web setups). But even then there's still (hopefully) some resolvers with cached records :)
- qeorge 17y agoYou can encrypt your records. Perhaps this is a dumb question: How does that solve the problem? Either its readable by all or by none. It's hard to take out somebody's nameservers, since there's no single point of failure (unlike with most web setups). But even then there's still (hopefully) some resolvers with cached records :) I think you may have missed the point. He's not worried about the data being unavailable, quite the opposite.
- wibblenut 17y ago>Perhaps this is a dumb question: How does that solve the problem? Either its readable by all or by none. There's a service called TelFriends that brokers keys between you and your friends. Ordinary people don't have to care about that - typically their username/password is used in whatever app they're using to transparently decrypt records on the fly. And since we're talking about privacy, you own your domain and its data - not Telnic, Google, or Facebook.