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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 14:24:10 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   • Sebastian Lasse

   If Brexit happens, every brit with a .eu domain will probably lose it [german article, via @sl007] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Brexit-eu-Domaininhabern-drohen-Komplikationen-4294380.html

   Oh hi yes hello, have we talked yet about why DNS is bad and we shouldn't be relying on it for our decentralized networks?

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 17:29:42 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     BTW, here is another way to put it, since I think many people here haven't thought about how problematic DNS / SSL CAs are:

     1) With DNS, you DO NOT own/control your domain; you lease/rent it. And your landlord can take it away at any time (and this does happen).

     (cotd ...)

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   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 17:32:54 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     2) The reason DNS/SSL are so hard is *because* of the coordination with central authorities.
     3) If your address was your key fingerprint, no need for a CA; you already know how to make a secure connection (why .onion does not need https)
     4) SSL CAs are as weak as the *weakest* CA in your CA list. It only takes one badly acting CA for you to be man in the middled.
     5) DNS and SSL CAs centralize the otherwise decentralized fediverse.

     Down with DNS, down with SSL CA cartels.

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   • Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 21:05:12 UTC Tomas SA2TMS

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     @cwebber Viewing DNS as a rent-seeking mechanism hadn't occurred to me before, but now that you mention it it becomes obvious. I've mostly thought of it as an administrative fee, but everyone up the chain turns a profit and are free to with everyone below them as they please..
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   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 21:20:20 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Tomas SA2TMS

     @tomas yeah! I remember feeling like "whoa" when that sank in