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And there goes the "Open" part of OpenDNS. With Cisco's strong ties to the NSA and with its general attitude of supporting censorship in many countries around t
by higherpurpose 11y ago
And there goes the "Open" part of OpenDNS. With Cisco's strong ties to the NSA and with its general attitude of supporting censorship in many countries around the world, I'd stay away from using OpenDNS' servers from now on.
I think https://www.opennicproject.org https://www.opennicproject.org is a nice alternative.
I'd probably be very vigilant about their future contributions to Libsodium as well.
- lcswi 11y agoWhat was open about it? I always felt weird with the combination of 'open' in the name and then tracking and advertising heavily.
- snowpanda 11y agoopennic is indeed very nice
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoIts never been Open. Its a proprietary service now and will be after the acquisition.
- jedisct1 11y agolibsodium is a personal project that has nothing to do with them. I don't even think they are using it for anything. Being paid to work on opensource projects is a dream of many, but it rarely happens :(
- g-clef 11y agoFYI, opennic is far more than just an alternative resolver to OpenDNS. OpenNIC is running an alternative set of roots, with TLDs that aren't agreed to by the regular DNS-managing bodies (like ICANN). That may be fine with you (opinion on ICANN's handling of new TLD's is a subject for another time), but be aware that you're seeing a different DNS with opennic than you would be with OpenDNS or google's 8.8.8.8