New Google Public DNS Service
Google are hitting the community with another interesting
project.
Just recently Google have started a New Public DNS Service.
As it's explained in the
Introducing Google Public DNS article.
The service could aim the end user with a faster DNS resolving
service,
Basicly their DNS seems to be fetching routinely DNS records for
all the domain
on the net (just imagine what kind of cluster system is required
for that operation).
Google also claim that this new service could strengthen people's
security, e.g.
DNS Spoofing tendts to be much more harder to achieve in order to
spoof domain names.
All this sounds perfectly well, however in the same manner of
security thought, it's interesting
Why haven't they mentioned the bad sides of using their public
DNS?
It's pretty obvious that using their public DNS service could
easily provide google with extra information about what kind of
domains does people online resolve, that could even provide google
with spoofing capabilities.
In other words everybody that would possibly use this service in
the future could allow Google to spoof certain desired domains to
point to a custom domain names.
Let's assume somebody would post some secret data which shouldn't
be seen by ppl online, it's pretty simple for Google then to spoof
the IP address to point to another modified copy of the
domain.
I hope you got my thought.
As I said earlier another "evil" about the service is in the fact
that probably Google would log what users tend to resolve.
I do value my anonymity online, so I don't want my resolved domains
to be logged by a single corporation.
. I've tested the service and I would say the service is really
light fast it prooved to be a bit faster than my personal local
router BIND resolving service.
. In my personal view, this DNS public service along with all the
rest
on the net controlled by millionaire corporations are simply
efforts to more and more centralize the internet (set things in
order) under the governance of a certain numbers of computer
software/corporations
this I would say is against our basic human freedom and is putting
the data online
more and more under control.
Everyone knows that the internet started as a project to connect
people and extend their freedom,
anyhow this days things seems to turn around and people get more
and more restricted/controlled day by day.