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by tptacek 1503 days ago
He's an authority on the DNS, but that doesn't mean he's right about everything to do with it. He's an advocate for DNSSEC, for instance, which is a fiasco. In this instance, his concern about DoH enabling malware or closed-source devices is incoherent (none of these bugbears even need to use DNS at all if they don't want to). The concern DoH addresses, meanwhile, is not abstract: if you're in the US on a major ISP, it's almost certain that your ISP is monetizing your DNS lookups.