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It's likely that the assumption is that in 'enterprise' or large organizations software installation and configuration is managed or that they fall back if they
by supakeen 8y ago
It's likely that the assumption is that in 'enterprise' or large organizations software installation and configuration is managed or that they fall back if they can't (but as the blog post says; DNS over HTTPS is hard to block).
- ahubert 8y agoWith BYOD that is less and less likely to be true..
- supakeen 8y agoAnd Android P is already gearing up to DNS over HTTPS as well with Android itself going with DNS over TLS. Don't know what the iOS stance on this is.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI've not seen many orgs manage FF settings. Typically AD policies apply to MSIE/Edge. Has this changed?
- Arelius 8y agoAs a single data point, my current and quite large company manages firefox settings. I discovered this when they turned off the search in address bar feature...
- LinuxBender 8y agoCool. I hope this is becoming more prevalent. A coworker gave me a link to the policy (for windows) [1] [1] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-group-policy https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
- reitanqild 8y agoIf anyone wonders why anyone would do that it might be because the autocomplete in search bar leaks metadata not only about what you search but also about what sites you visit.
- fulafel 8y agoIt seems many orgs manage to shoot themselves in the foot quite badly with centrally managed browser. In all the environments I've seen, IT have managed to disable auto-update on Chrome or Firefox and break the centrally managed updates for a long time, creating an easy avenue for malware or worse to get in.