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A Look At the Safety of Google Public DNS
darthcamaro writes "Yesterday we discussed Google's launch of its new Public DNS service. Now Metasploit founder and CSO at Rapid7, H D Moore, investigates how well-protected Google's service is against the Kaminsky DNS flaw. Moore has put together a mapping of Google's source port distribution on the Public DNS service. In his view, it looks like the source ports are sufficiently random, even though they are limited to a small range of ports. The InternetNews report on Moore's research concludes: 'What Moore's preliminary research clearly demonstrates to me is that Google really does need to live up to its promise here. Unlike a regular ISP, Google will be subject to more scrutiny (and research) than other DNS providers.'"
while not quite a 'service', they provided a free browser and the haters took them to court over it. They provided a media player and they had the EU book thrown at them.
"There is no real right or wrong, just what the majority accepts at the time."
You mean like all the times that Microsoft gets blasted when they are just providing a new FREE service that sucks?
Fixed that for you.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Their public statements say that they are not linking the requests to other Google services, and that they are discarding ip addresses within a day or two.
Why believe Google?
"I zero-index my hamsters" - Willtor (147206)
"Yet."
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Examples? If there were examples then how would THEY trick you? No, all the examples have been hidden from the internets by the evil Googleman. They're puuuure evil and they only want you to be unhappy, but you'll never find proof! Just trust ME! I only want you to have puppies and cake!