 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | reply to obvoiusjoe
Re: Bring it on... said by obvoiusjoe :
Your point is off base. My point "nix" is that DNS servers store all this data anyway, and have been for decades. But people don't make such a big fuss over that for some reason. Actually, no, DNS servers don't "store all this data anyway". At least, not in the way you seem to think that they do, and definitely not in the way that would be useful in the context of a "service" like NebuAd. In the normal functioning of a DNS server (i.e., not in debug mode - and even then, you're generally not so much storing it as logging it), the only information that is cached, is the data that is looked up - not who (what client) looked it up.
said by obvoiusjoe :
Now all of a sudden, ISPs are cashing (or caching could be a better spelling) in and you act surprised. Only surprised in as much as ISPs used to prize their common-carrier protections. Things like this really put those protections into jeopardy.
said by obvoiusjoe :
I'll be happy to sit here and explain the OSI model and we can get deep with this if you want, Sure. Go ahead. This is 2008, not the mid 1980s, but I can sit around for story-time...
said by obvoiusjoe :
but for your sake, for your children's sake, please know that nothing you do online is ever 100% anonymous or safe. Ah, yes... The ever popular "for the children" argument. What next: NebuAd protects me from terrorism? You must have cried the day that Gonzales resigned.
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