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105 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 21h \ on: EU's launching its own DNS, and people are worried it'll break up the internet security
You can now use an European DNS resolver if you care about that
What really caught my eye was that it's a platform funded by the European Commission. As long as it's optional, I don't see huge issues, but I've got a bad feeling about it if they make it mandatory in the future. Could this be used as a filter for pages? Am I overthinking this? Or is it a real possibility?
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Does that happen even if the filter's at the ISP level?
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if you can filter the dns at isp level you can filter the traffic too, so won't change anything.
The only way i can see enforcing a dns, is demanding OS developers to remove the option to change the dns in their OSes if they want to sell in the EU, so won't affect linux, but everything else
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But i see this as unlikely, because the next step is someone ddosing the eu central dns and taking down internet for all new OSes and devices.
I think this is just an effort to have a fallback that doesn't rely on the suspicious generosity of google and cloudflare, or to some 2000-era server sitting in an humid basement of an ISP that reboots every 12 minutes.
Remember that EU takes a lot of money from the european states, they need sometimes to make things that look good, or people will start asking what they are there for (spoiler: nothing).
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