Reply to post: A bit short on details...?

DNS lookups can reveal every web page you visit, says German boffin

Anonymice
IT Angle

A bit short on details...?

Come on guys, this ain't the BBC, where're the technical details?

You rope us in with a headline about supposed privacy leaks in DNS, and then spend the entire article talking about old-hat browser fingerprinting & behavioural analysis. That was news 15 years ago!

“Many websites produce a so distinctive DNS retrieval pattern” that requests can be recognised “more or less unequivocally.”

How does the content on a *website* produce a distinctive enough pattern to identify specific pages?

"IT?" 'cause who the freud do you think your readership are?

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