Re: [Resolverless-dns] Paper on Resolver-less DNS

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 19 August 2019 17:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Resolverless-dns] Paper on Resolver-less DNS
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In article <0b18b804-7ebb-bb57-917e-2a9ba5190b2b@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> you write:
>The authors describe this limitation in their paper. In detail, some
>privacy policies are too generic and lack specific information about
>what DNS query data was collected, used and stored. Nonetheless, the
>authors concluded that the privacy policies of several DNS resolvers
>allow using DNS queries to aggregate user data for advertising.

Indeed, but since the authors clearly didn't understand what they were
talking about, this remains unhelpful.  It's hypothetically possible
that, say, Google uses query data from 8.8.8.8 to target ads, but
in the absence of a lot of other user data like logging in from a Chrome
browser it's hard to see how it would be more than a very weak signal
in an environment full of strong signals.

>indication for the mentioned privacy issue than a description in the
>privacy policy. However, I'm not aware of prior empirical research work
>in that direction.

Neither am I, so I don't understand why anyone makes assertions about
what they do.

R's,
John