Fri, Jan 8th 2021 12:00pm
Karl Bode
Over the last few months a wide variety of activists, experts, engineers, and academics provided their insights into broadband access (or a lack thereof) in the COVID era. We d like to thank all of the participants for their insights during a difficult and complicated time, and hope readers gleaned something useful from the exercise. You can peruse all of the contributions here if you missed any of them during the busy holiday season.
Our first two Techdirt Greenhouse panels, focusing on content moderation and privacy, saw no shortage of elaborate solutions for extremely complicated subjects. While broadband access can certainly be complicated (especially when it comes to policy, legislation, and network management), in many ways it s the simplest subject we ve tackled so far.
Fri, Dec 11th 2020 1:38pm
Karl Bode
Each time you visit a website, your browser interacts with a domain name system (DNS) resolver that converts web addresses to an IP address understood by the machines along your path. Historically however this traffic exchange isn t encrypted, making it possible for your broadband provider or another third party to monitor your browsing data based on your DNS queries. DNS inventors in the 80s didn t really bet on a future where all DNS queries would be tracked, monetized, or weaponized by third parties.
Experts for a while have been arguing (including here at the Techdirt Greenhouse policy project) that it s important that we start encrypting these pathways to bring a little more security and privacy to the equation. Companies like Mozilla have been at the forefront of implementing DNS over HTTPS, a significant security upgrade to DNS that encrypts and obscures your domain requests, making it more difficult (though not impossible) to see whi
Fri, Dec 11th 2020 1:38pm
Karl Bode
Each time you visit a website, your browser interacts with a domain name system (DNS) resolver that converts web addresses to an IP address understood by the machines along your path. Historically however this traffic exchange isn t encrypted, making it possible for your broadband provider or another third party to monitor your browsing data based on your DNS queries. DNS inventors in the 80s didn t really bet on a future where all DNS queries would be tracked, monetized, or weaponized by third parties.
Experts for a while have been arguing (including here at the Techdirt Greenhouse policy project) that it s important that we start encrypting these pathways to bring a little more security and privacy to the equation. Companies like Mozilla have been at the forefront of implementing DNS over HTTPS, a significant security upgrade to DNS that encrypts and obscures your domain requests, making it more difficult (though not impossible) to see whi