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    From Arlen Holder@arlen_holder@newmachines.com to comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.microsoft.windows on Wednesday, December 09, 2020 04:47:58
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Dateline today...

    Cloudflare & Apple & Fastly back a new DNS protocol separating DNS address lookups from those making them.

    Verbatim from:
    o Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1
    <https://blog.cloudflare.com/oblivious-dns/>

    "Today we are announcing support for a new proposed DNS standard
    co-authored by engineers from Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly,
    that separates IP addresses from queries, so that no single entity
    can see both at the same time."

    "Even better, we've made source code available,
    so anyone can try out ODoH, or run their own ODoH service!"

    Verbatim from:
    o Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
    <https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/cloudflare-and-apple-design-a-new-privacy-friendly-internet-protocol/>

    "Dubbed Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, or ODoH for short,
    the new protocol makes it far more difficult for internet providers
    to know which websites you visit"

    "ODoH decouples DNS queries from the internet user,
    preventing the DNS resolver from knowing which sites you visit."

    Verbatim from:
    o Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs
    <https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22163871/cloudflare-apple-dns-protocol-online-privacy>

    "Whether it does or not depends on how creepy your ISP is"

    "It's meant to help anonymize the information that's sent
    before you even make it onto a website."

    Verbatim from:
    o Cloudflare, Apple, and others back a new way to make the Internet more private
    <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/cloudflare-apple-and-others-back-a-new-way-to-make-the-internet-more-private/>

    "Cloudflare, Apple, and content-delivery network Fastly
    have introduced a novel way to fix that using a technique
    that prevents service providers and network snoops from seeing
    the addresses end users visit or send email to."

    "The companies are working with the Internet Engineering Task Force
    in hopes it will become an industry-wide standard."
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