[ubuntu-studio-devel] Internet security - Was: How wide spread is Linux spyware?

[Mike Holstein]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
wrote:

> Is the used /etc/resolv.conf a security risk?
>
> I'm not using Google ;), but what I'm using might not be better than
> Google.
>

you dont have to trust any authority.. you can just disable all that DNS
resolving, and just call the company up, and ask them for the IP.. its
really the only way to be certain, and not have to trust a 3rd party..
*then*, you get to wonder about the security of that phone call ;)


>
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 62.109.121.2
> nameserver 62.109.121.1
>
> "8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4" -
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/130452/how-do-i-add-a-dns-server-via-resolv-conf
>
> 666, resp.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_%28number%29#In_white_nationalism
>
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