On Tuesday, February 18, 2025 10:06:35 PM CET Peter 'PMc' Much wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 09:51:51PM +0100, Michael De Roover wrote: > ! On Tuesday, February 18, 2025 9:38:58 PM CET Peter 'PMc' Much wrote: > ! > Then they make a business of selling my own information back to me - > ! > and I would like to know how they do that. > ! > ! Hehe.. about that... It may not be very "interesting" of an answer, but > someone aptly ! named "Half as Interesting" on YouTube actually made a > video about that. ! > ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh6zanS_epw[1] > ! > ! (Long story short, it's MaxMind's secret sauce and therefore a trade > secret) > > > Okay, to put it to the point: my personal data is their trade secret? > So, I am in fact cattle kept by them, for their profit? > > And I thought we were done with slavery since 1865. > > cheerio, > PMc
Heya! Contentious question, that's for sure. But to the best of my knowledge and impartiality.. yes. Yes, it is. Should it be this way, of course not. But is it this way? ... Yes. Yes sir, it is. So opt out of data collection wherever you can, and hide your IP from everyone by default. Heck, strong-arm whoever you can in this regard. This is an inevitability in many spheres outside of DNS too, e.g. preemptive scheduling at the OS level, and Scoped Storage / SQLite databases in Android / iOS storage subsystems respectively. Some orgs still learn that I'm not German, Google's search app is one of them that conveniently bypasses device VPN on Android (because I guess as the OS vendor, they can). Those have to be strong-armed into network-wide VPNs on the gateway level, which the device can provably not have administrative access to. Granted, that moves it into more of a policy question than it is a DNS question, so that's where I'd suggest private discourse instead. I'd rather not irritate the ISC and IETF folks any more than I already am, with my writings by LED candlelight :) One last thing I'd like to mention as a member of CZDS though: some zone operators' geographic databases are most certainly out of date. The video does not lie about that. I'd estimate the delta for those to be somewhere between 5 and 10 years, and I have had my home address rejected by those because the building is too new to be on their map. Cheers! -- Met vriendelijke groet, Michael De Roover Mail: i...@nixmagic.com Web: michael.de.roover.eu.org -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
