Death by Dangerous By Design Defaults, Dumb DoH Degrades DNS's Dignity.

Firefox recently introduced DNS over HTTPS in firefox for "securing" application dns. I am personally of the opinion that applications should NOT attempt to work around a broken system resolver as this is a system issue that is out of scope of the application. But I digress. While DoH is …

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Life Update Blog June 2020

Today I get my airconditioner from amazon prime delivered, allegedly. It's june, it's humid and my window fan isn't cutting it. Nothing much changes in Jeff land yet the world is going insane at the moment. Alas politics is not the topic of this blog post.

The topic is... daily …

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Lokinet with DNSCrypt-Proxy

Intro

This is a quick intro with how to use lokinet with dnscrypt-proxy on ubuntu/debian based distros to secure your dns queries from spying eyes, as requested by someone on an XMPP muc.

Setup

You want to first install dnscrypt-proxy

# apt update
# apt install dnscrypt-proxy

Next install lokinet see …

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