Re: [Add] [EXTERNAL] Re: Malware adopting DoH

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Sep 13, 2019, at 10:58, Jim Reid <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On 13 Sep 2019, at 15:53, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> Jim, this is just a non sequitur.   For the case of blocking malware, if the malware has fewer choices, it is easier, not harder, to block.
> 
> I’m not so sure it is a non-sequitur Ted. Aside from the competition/consolidation concerns which may well be out of scope for the IETF, centralisation is bad engineering because it introduces avoidable single points of failure. And control.
> 

Yes. That’s why malware using centralized services is good: because it’s bad engineering. It makes them vulnerable. 

I suspect that on the long run this will turn out to be a mistake on the malware authors’ part.