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Google Launches Public DNS Resolver

Posted by timothy on from the their-interest-is-understandable dept.

AdmiralXyz writes "Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service, called Google Public DNS. According to their blog post, Google Public DNS uses continuous record prefetching to avoid cache misses — hopefully making the service faster — and implements a variety of techniques to block spoofing attempts. They also say that (unlike an increasing number of ISPs), Google Public DNS behaves exactly according to the DNS standard, and will not redirect you to advertising in the event of a failed lookup. Very cool, but of course there are questions about Google's true motivations behind knowing every site you visit."

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  1. OpenNIC has been offering this for years now... by pongo000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...and OpenNIC has no interest in maintaining records of your visits.

    Google is beginning to get scary.

    1. Re:OpenNIC has been offering this for years now... by pongo000 · · Score: 0, Troll
      Did you read any of the comments before you posted? They have a privacy policy explicitly stating they delete personally-identifiable records after 24 hours.

      Yes, but in that 24 hours' worth of time, you can bet Google has extracted every last possible drop of information from your queries. And we all know that data aggregration has the scary property of synthesizing "expunged" information from supposedly anonymous data.

      From an EFF report on the dangers of data aggregation:

      Although the most dangerous use of data aggregation is that of the government, data aggregation by private companies is also cause for concern. This is because companies can sell to the government information that it could not legally obtain on its own. Even companies that refuse to do business with the government can be subpoenaed. For these reasons, data aggregation by private companies poses the same risks that data aggregation by the government poses.