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Fri, Dec 11th 2020 1:38pm — Karl Bode Each time you visit a website, your browser interacts with a domain name system (DNS) resolver that converts web addresses to an IP address understood by the machines along your path. Historically however this traffic exchange isnt encrypted, making it possible for your broadband provider or another third party to monitor your browsing data based on your DNS queries. DNS inventors in the 80s didnt really bet on a future where all DNS queries would be trac...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Apple and Cloudflare partnered up to develop a new DNS protocol that better protects user privacy, called Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, or ODoH. Tech columnist Jason Aten writes that this new standard will make it harder for internet service providers to collect data on users browsing activity and potentially sell that data to advertisers. Many providers dont use ...

Legislation and cooperation should not be about regulating internet. needs to stay free and open and keep their mitts out of it and let people in internet engineering task force and people built it where it is let them continue to do their work. jenna: quick thought, if we see cybercrimes, human trafficking coming up on the web, crossing different countries borders who would be best to oversee it if it is not the united nations? >> the idea of the internet itself is openness. it what made the in...