On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:00:46 +1100
wirelessduck--- via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> What’s the consensus on Quad9? Are they any better from a privacy
> standpoint?


I personally do not trust any of the DNS-providers with such easy-
to-remember IP addresses. Also, if you want unfiltered results from
Quad9, you won't get DNSSEC [1].

It may or may not be a coincidence that at the very same time that q9
moves its headquarters to independent and neutral Switzerland [2],
Palantir (BigData specialist with close connections to the CIA) builds
its "new European hub" in Altendorf [3], just a few kilometers across
the lake. I'd bet that they share the fiber, if not the data center.

And then there was this report, also from this winter, that the EU
might want to declare DNS-servers "critical infrastructure" and thus
make you require a registration to run one [4].

I want to stress that I rather believe in co-incidence than in any
central entities being "in control" (in opposite to "dominance"). I
also believe in critical mass, be it moving to which-ever direction.

BTW, yesterday I watched Jean Luc Godard's "Alphaville" (1965) once
again. Right after Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950) one the most important
films on my harddisk.

Just my two cheese cubes,
Florian cens⬛ré Caution



[1] https://www.quad9.net/support/faq
[2] https://www.switch.ch/news/quad9-moves-to-Switzerland/
[3] https://www.s-ge.com/en/article/news/20211-software-palantir
[4] https://connect.geant.org/2021/01/22/running-you-own-dns-service-there-may-be-changes-ahead