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[Discussion] Which privacy apps / services do you think are most likely US government honeypots? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 13 hours ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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IE like Crypto AG:

In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence. The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.

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[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 10 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Sometimes I think that DNS providers could be, like NextDNS (I use them).

[–] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

DNS providers can only see which sites you are visiting but not the actual content right?

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

I briefly used NextDNS but decided against using a DNS server tied to my email.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I wish there was a possible way to run an authoritative DNS yourself. The best I can do is a recursive server blah.

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that would be perfect. I thought some time ago about doing a DoT port -> nginx -> pihole -> unbound inside a cloud VM for the outside world , like this, but that would be too much work and maybe insecure.

[–] It_is_gaslighting@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You can tunnel your DNS requests via wireguard to your pihole server. If it has good bandwidth even the full traffic. Why would that be insecure?

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 3 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, using a VPN would be good enough, but I want it to be open to the internet, without any port/config restriction, so I can access it from any device and anywhere, so the only remaining thing would be to host and open the port on a VM, only DoT and DoH, no :53 open (that would really be insecure, as DDoS insecure).