Re: [Doh] Mozilla's plans re: DoH

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

>     Il 27 marzo 2019 alle 23.46 Stephen Farrell < [e-mail] mailto:[e-mail] > ha scritto:
> 
>     I do not accept the above as a useful distinction for this topic.
> 
>     Those in the category of your first bullet can only be protected
>     by technology when (essentially) all those in other categories
>     use the same technology. (That said, I could quibble with your
>     text, but won't for now:-)
> 
>     But, and it's a big but, those whose safety is not at risk (today),
>     also have valid interests to protect, and mechanisms that we have
>     to offer for such protection need to be widely deployed to be
>     effective.
> 
The problem is that, in DoH's "obfuscated traffic mode" (is that better than "dissident mode"?), increased transport privacy for the individual (not necessarily increased privacy, but that's a different story) is obtained at the expense of network security. Other tradeoff points are possible, giving the user almost the same amount of privacy but also more security, so while I find it justified to push the tradeoff to the extreme side of privacy when someone's life and freedom could be at risk, I would prefer a more balanced tradeoff point (the one in which DoH traffic is clearly identifiable and can be blocked by the network if necessary) in other contexts, at least as the default.

More generally, beware that if you build an Internet that is designed to work as if everyone on the planet were a dissident in an authoritarian country, it is not unlikely that you will then get an Internet regulatory and access environment that looks like the one of authoritarian countries, even in democratic ones.

Ciao,

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