Network Security, DNS, You, Me, and THEM: Can Anyone Explain It Like I'm a Two-Year-Old? 😳

In my never-ending and annoying-to-everyone-else quest to learn EVERYTHING--and, undoubtedly confuse things and show my ass most times --my curiosity took me to the mathematical galaxy of networks: specifically eccie, p411, and MRB just for kicks to compare ( next on my list is run-on sentances!)...(and punctuation)

ANYWHO, I found this site:
http://ssltools.com/dns_lookup

Of the three, only MRB had a near perfect set-up, or whatever it is (this could be post-incident and after gov takeover...? E and P, however, have subtle mishaps in the SOA whatever, making them more difficult to hack/surveil, etc...whereas MRB had it just right for inquiring eyes.

This also led me to this related site concerning web privacy, etc.:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...dnsidtrail.pdf

Is this thing on?? Does anyone really know if any of this matters to us?

Thanks!!
Roothead's Avatar
Yeah. It does matter. The real issue is the leap- frogging of tech capabilities, a cat vs. mouse game where each side is in a constant state of 1upping the other.
It does matter but a big problem is that there are so many security holes being found on a daily basis that it is virtually impossible to

Here are some examples
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/0...nd-profit-many

http://rt.com/usa/200971-data-steal-computer-cellphone/

Here are some info on how to stay safer online
https://ssd.eff.org/