Thoughts from IETF 106
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts from IETF 106, including on BBR, IPv6, and DoH.
Tag: privacy
How consumer IoT devices expose information
Guest Post: Do our Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices at home expose private information unexpectedly?
Palmtree router: A secure and private Internet gateway
Guest Post: Palmtree Router is a new project built from open source tools to provide a private Internet gateway.
Eavesdroppers and censors can still monitor what you’re viewing even if you’re using encrypted DNS
Guest Post: Researchers have found it’s possible to identify web pages visited by a user by analysing DoH traffic.
Opinion: Centralized DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond
Guest Post: Centralized DoH ‘by default’ is a net-negative for everyone’s privacy and that even in later years it will not improve privacy outside of the most privacy hostile environments.
IETF 105: Measurement and privacy
While encryption may help protect user privacy, for the measurement community it creates significant challenges.
What can you learn from an IP address?
Guest Post: Researchers examine whether an adversary can deduce websites visited using a set of IP addresses originating from a user’s device.
DNS privacy software — not only a browser game
Guest Post: How prevalent are DoT and DoH projects, and what languages are developers using to implement them?
DNS Query Privacy
QNAME minimisation has been billed as an efficient means to protect your privacy in the DNS. But are you using it?
Opinion: Some not so private thoughts from IETF 105
Opinion: Do we need to rethink the terms of privacy and consent to align with today’s data collection methods?