looks interesting ... I think many ISP's use DNS to manage/direct traffic internally so will this bypass or break parts of their network for the google DNS user?
off the top of my head, the explanations I have seen give a reasonable approach to security of your footprints as you travel the Internet - but what they don't say is what happens if a legal entity requests the data - all bets are off then I think. Google is a data aggregator - they already have your emails if even one of the respondents you send to use a google a/c (and you may not even know if there are redirects to a google a/c for a user) - how much more do you want them to know? They know your search requests and have access to data from many other sources as well - google toolbar anyone :) On the other side of the coin, they (and their partners) already pool a huge amount of information in such a way as to be almost impossible to avoid and use the Internet at all productively so I think your only protection is to be very careful what you say and do in public and private communications as you just do not know who is listening. If you are using something like Tor to muddy your tracks, could using google DNS give enough clues to hobble Tor? - not sure. Though they (Tor) must have covered this I think. Note that I am not thinking "security" organizations here - though I think google and their competitors must be a data source too good to ignore, but commercial services like targeted advertising, SPAM and other objectionable practices. Its not small scale data collection (one company) data collection that concerns me, but googles global reach and aggregation of data. Billk On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 18:11 -0800, walt wrote: > I just found out that google is offering its DNS servers to the public > for free. as usual. > > I know that anyone can use any DNS server that's exposed to the internet, > also for free, so what's the big deal about google? > > Well, they say that their DNS servers are more resistant to cache poisoning > and other disgusting forms of toxicity: > > http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/security.html > > Any comments from you security geeks out there? > >
