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Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship

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Re: Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship

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Post by Belphemur »

Boulth wrote: post #8
Belphemur wrote: post #3

I've been using Intra with my own DoH server for months already. It's stable and updated regulary: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/intra Also, if you're looking for a DoH server that block adverts, here is mine: https://dns.aaflalo.me/dns-query

> Also, if you're looking for a DoH server that block adverts, here is mine: > https://dns.aaflalo.me/dns-query Great! I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Is the source code open? Not that I don't trust you with my DNS queries but...

I've written the step I used to do the DoH part.

https://www.aaflalo.me/2018/10/tutorial-setup-dns-over-https...

Still need to document the PiHole part.

I've also disable all logging for Nginx and Pihole. The server is also listed on https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers

Also, if you're in the American Continent, you might want to use the proxy I setup on Google Cloud Platform:

https://dns-gcp.aaflalo.me/dns-query

Re: Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship

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Post by 21 »

This is richly ironic. I had to check that this was not an article from The Onion.

Will this tool bypass the censored Google that will be introduced in China?

More likely it will automatically report the user to the Chinese government if used in China.

Re: Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship

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Post by mtgx »

21 wrote: post #12

This is richly ironic. I had to check that this was not an article from The Onion. Will this tool bypass the censored Google that will be introduced in China? More likely it will automatically report the user to the Chinese government if used in China.

It probably won't even be available to Chinese users.

Re: Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship

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Post by pjc50 »

What this appears to be is a DNS-over-HTTPs proxy application, which will route your DNS traffic directly to Google bypassing any substitutions or deletions made by your local ISP or government.

Whether the advantages of that outweigh giving google your DNS traffic (and realistically they already know every site you visit, because almost everyone uses google analytics) depends on your local security situation.

Note that your local security situation may include the good old rubber hose attack: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/194353/police-f...

Re: Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship

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Post by elbracitosNIR »

21 wrote: post #12

This is richly ironic. I had to check that this was not an article from The Onion. Will this tool bypass the censored Google that will be introduced in China? More likely it will automatically report the user to the Chinese government if used in China.

Could you please stop talking bad about Google? It’s against the site guidelines [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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