[SLL] who is randomizing DNS source ports? deploying DNSSEC?

Mark D. Foster mark at foster.cc
Fri Jul 25 16:45:16 PDT 2008


Brian Hatch wrote:
> And it doesn't provide accurate domain resolution.
>
>   $ host www.google.com 208.67.220.220
>   www.google.com is an alias for google.navigation.opendns.com.
>   google.navigation.opendns.com has address 208.67.216.230
>   google.navigation.opendns.com has address 208.67.216.231
>
> Do you want to relay all your searches through them?  Wonder
> what they're doing with it.  Or injecting in it.  Wonder
> what they'll hijack next week.
>   
This is tongue-in-cheek right? GOOGLE already has everyone's search and 
browsing data anyway.

Well at least they have mine, as I've been discovering.

Hint: try searching your cookies for "utm"

Noticed how many sites have started using google analytics?  Even 
open-source sites?
Urchin Traffic monitor (patent-pending) has the scoop on pretty much all 
of us.

Uh, could someone point the way to an adblock-like firefox extension to 
deny cookies based on a regex?

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