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RE: This DNS over HTTP thing


From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:08:07 -0600


On Wednesday, 2 October, 2019 14:52, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

I think in the outside world you'll find very little support for an
argument that filtering DNS is fundamentally broken.

Well, it is certainly trivial to bypass.  Therefore it is a fantastic tools for tyrants and other fuckwads -- just as 
long as they think they are being effective, who really gives a rats ass.

Sure, you can do it in broken ways, but it's going to be really hard
to persuade anyone that their lives are better if they have unfiltered
access to the malware links in their spam.

Having unfiltered access to the malware installed by links in spam is a self-limiting problem.  Remove the DNS blocks 
and in rather short order the problem will go away as all the idiots click their way to oblivion.

--
The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.




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