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Whoaa...I am not very technical, but the first question that comes to mind is, what would be a difference between this and what Tor attempts to accomplish?

• e1ven 15y ago
  They're really unrelated. Tor proxies your traffic through several random machines on the internet, so by the time it gets to the destination, no one knows who sent it. This captures and relays your DNS queries to OpenDNS in a new way. DNS queries are used to translate a site's name ( facebook.com ) into it's internet address - 123.456.789. OpenDNS has run a service which did the translation for a long time, but when you ask them to translate, it passes through your ISP, so your ISP could, in theory, see what domain name you were asking about. This has a way of encrypting the request, so that OpenDNS can answer the translation, without anyone but you being able to see what you asked for.
  • mkup 15y ago
    without anyone but you being able to see what you asked for. and without anyone being able to replace IP address of facebook.com with IP address of some MitM server (in the ISP network, for example)
    • marshray 15y ago
      Or perform MitM on the raw IP packets without modifying the IP addresses at all. (Like your ISP or any other router along the path.)
  • parfe 15y ago
    My ISP can see which IP addresses I connect to and can perform a reverse lookup. I don't think the privacy angle has any value. I suppose a shared host could serve multiple sites, but then simple packet snooping would reveal which hostname I am requesting.
    • e1ven 15y ago
      I agree. Something like a full-on VPN would be safer.