Since the topic du jour revolves around privacy/data protection or the lack thereof, here’s an interesting dilemma: should DNS over HTTPS replace VPN or work together? Should we completely forget about VPNs and stick with this new and ‘wobbly’ technology? B2B – What does a VPN do? I’ll cover all these points throughout the article. Despite limited effectiveness against MiM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, it would appear that the early adoption could, allegedly, paint a gigantic bullseye on the users’ backs.īack in October, ZDNet pointed out that the premature adoption of DoH will not only wreak havoc in the enterprise/SMB/startup sector but could, presumably, give malicious hackers the upper hand. have done a bang-up job speculating the market’s ‘needs.’ The push for DNS over HTTPS is at its peak, with browsers now allowing the users to implement the protocol. That’s a pain-point right there, and Google, Mozilla et al. Of course, your Internet Service Provider is blind to what you’re doing on that website, but can still ‘see’ and even log your request(s). In essence, each time you’re trying to connect to a website, the endpoint pings the ISP about your request. The major caveat of this comm protocol is that the DNS lookups are not encrypted. That’s, more or less, how web-surfing works. In turn, the DNS returns the address, allowing the user to view the requested web content. DoH does have its merit –in a traditional DNS comm model, the user queries the domain name system for the numerical IP address associated with that specific website. There’s been a lot of buzz around the implementation of DoH (DNS over HTTPS), a somewhat new encrypted communication protocol that should, theoretically, uphold privacy.Īs one of my colleagues pointed out, DNS over HTTPS is poised to become the next “golden standard”, since it has achieved “an unprecedented default level of privacy and data protection”. Since we’re on the topic of privacy, it would appear that we may have another Cambridge Analytica in the making. We can state for a fact that some good came out of it, although the amount alone of paperwork can be a powerful demotivator for someone with a sound business idea. The Cambridge Analytica scandal may be old news, but it has far-reaching implications – Internet users grew more concerned over their online visibility and website owners were compelled to list their data-collection privacy.
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