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It's very clear that DNS is fundamentally broken and any resolver that does not resolve because of political decisions should be considered not fit for purpose;

It's very clear that DNS is fundamentally broken and any resolver that does not resolve because of political decisions should be considered not fit for purpose; it is advised not to use any resolver that is mentioned in this article as they have all been affected. My understanding is DNS resolves a domain to an IP address. If there is any process that prohibits that, then it's not working by design. Thankfully there are many resolvers that will always resolve no matter what 'legal' may throw at it. This is fundamental despite what content lies on the other side. There will always be cat and mouse with speech and rights to access, and any protocols will be challenged. Thankfully, others will say 'no thank you' and refuse to listen to any order, legal or otherwise. And thankfully, they cannot be touched (VPNs, TOR et al). Even the most censorship heavy countries in the world have to resort to physically shutting the internet down, because if there is a pathway, it will be found. It's just human nature.

TZubiri 1y ago
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- Novosell 1y ago
  Man, that's is some hardcore "think of the children" bullshit. Things which protect people will inadvertently also end up protecting some bad people. The only solution to that is killing all humans.
  - userbinator 1y ago
    I don't know if the comment you're replying to is actually satire.
  - TZubiri 1y ago
    Similarly, there are laws for subpoenas in banking. If you wire wire 100k to some random account, courts can ask who you wired to. This, again, is used to prevent crime. It is the system we have whether you like it or not. You can implemet ridiculous amounts of encryption such that providers not only can't see the contents, but also can't see headers or where info is being sent to. But those technologies are munitions providers that sell that are enemies of the law.
haarolean 1y ago
>DNS is fundamentally broken Is it? Seems to be working as intended. Don't like a specific resolver? Cool, switch to another. Or run your own. The problem is entities like Cloudflare trying to centralize the internet, DNS included, not the protocol itself.

TZubiri 1y ago

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Novosell 1y ago
Man, that's is some hardcore "think of the children" bullshit. Things which protect people will inadvertently also end up protecting some bad people. The only solution to that is killing all humans.
- userbinator 1y ago
  I don't know if the comment you're replying to is actually satire.
- TZubiri 1y ago
  Similarly, there are laws for subpoenas in banking. If you wire wire 100k to some random account, courts can ask who you wired to. This, again, is used to prevent crime. It is the system we have whether you like it or not. You can implemet ridiculous amounts of encryption such that providers not only can't see the contents, but also can't see headers or where info is being sent to. But those technologies are munitions providers that sell that are enemies of the law.

haarolean 1y ago

>DNS is fundamentally broken Is it? Seems to be working as intended. Don't like a specific resolver? Cool, switch to another. Or run your own. The problem is entities like Cloudflare trying to centralize the internet, DNS included, not the protocol itself.