Saving Brian's Privacy: the Perils of Privacy Exposure through Reverse DNS — mentioned by belter

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 10:30:45 GMT

"...One demonstrably not well understood interaction occurs when DHCP exchanges are accompanied by automated changes to the global DNS (e.g., to dynamically add hostnames for allocated IP addresses). As we will substantiate, this is a privacy risk: one may be able to infer device presence and network dynamics from virtually anywhere on the Internet — and even identify and track individuals — even if other mechanisms to limit tracking by outsiders (e.g., blocking pings) are in place... ...We present a first of its kind study into this risk. We identify networks that expose client identifiers…

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Saving Brian's Privacy: the Perils of Privacy Exposure through Reverse DNS — HN submission

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 10:30:45 GMT

Perils of Privacy Exposure Through Reverse DNS

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Saving Brian's Privacy: the Perils of Privacy Exposure through Reverse DNS — mentioned by belter

Saving Brian's Privacy: the Perils of Privacy Exposure through Reverse DNS — HN submission