Even if you are fine with your ISP committing fraud, you are negatively effected by the complexity (points of failure) and latency this adds to the network.
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Even if you are fine with your ISP committing fraud, you are negatively effected by the complexity (points of failure) and latency this adds to the network.
"dig @www.facebook.com news.ycombinator.com" does not use the ISP's DNS servers at all. It sends a DNS query to Facebook for Google, which should normally fail. His ISP hijacks the request and provides a response. In this scenario, the advice in your comment is pointless because they will hijack requests whether they are directly to authoritative servers or if they are to recursive servers.
DNSCrypt is a perfectly fine solution for this threat model.
You forgot the part where it's protecting against trashy ISPs like the one in this article.
Source? Also, universities are much different than ycombinator so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Similar to your unsubstantiated comment about Ayn Rand?
How many are asking for this? Where are your stats?
If you are really are floored by this, you have a very weak sense of perspective. These conclusions are all very easy to get to if you follow this notion that members of terrorist organizations must be killed. If you set that as an unmovable goal, you will very quickly end up at these types of conclusions.
Try to gain some perspective. Just throwing a fit of incredulity doesn't help any arguments because the other side usually feels the same way about you.
Is there proof that terrorist organization leaders are operating in those countries unchecked?
We should be teaching people how to run virus scans and backups before writing an application that prints a colored letter to the screen.
If you aren't using HTTPS for all of your site, you are vulnerable to MITM attacks.