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		ryanlol on Oct 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for enc... What do you mean? There's a whole genre of reasonably talented morally bankrupt "whitehats" building passivedns mass surveillance infrastructure. Cisco collects more than 24TB of DNS query data every day. Here's a Cisco employee demonstrating the kinds of horrifying analytics they perform on this data https://www.first.org/resources/papers/conf2018/Mahjoub-Dhia...

BurnGpuBurn on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

Wow, that is amazing. Is Cisco telling their clients they're doing this? That's a lot of root servers too.

ryanlol on Oct 2, 2019 | [–]

This surveillance is mostly targeted at residential users. I’m sure they mention this in some opendns legalese, but they definitely don’t openly advertise this.

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