[governance] The DNS is a tempting target for control...

[Andrea Glorioso]

>>>>> "stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> writes:

    > Here is a candid claim that controllers should mess with the DNS
    > to implement their policy:

    > http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090420_time_to_supplement_desktop_security_protections/

It is completely unclear (at least to me) how DNS-based "protection"
would actually work.  Besides implementing domain- or IP-based
filtering - which works only for a tiny minority of actual threats -
what would be the practical added value?

Ciao,

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