"EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities"
*EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities** * Catalin Cimpanu January 19, 2022 The European Union is interested in building its own recursive DNS service that will be made available to EU institutions and the general public for free. The proposed service, named DNS4EU, is currently in a project planning phase, and the EU is looking for partners to help build a sprawling infrastructure to serve all its current 27 member states. EU officials said they started looking into an EU-based centrally-managed DNS service after observing consolidation in the DNS market around a small handful of non-EU operators. “The deployment of DNS4EU aims to address such consolidation of DNS resolution in the hands of few companies, which renders the resolution process itself vulnerable in case of significant events affecting one major provider,” officials said in the DNS4EU infrastructure project revealed last week. But EU officials said that other factors also played a role in their decision to build DNS4EU, including cybersecurity and data privacy. [...] continua qui: https://therecord.media/eu-wants-to-build-its-own-dns-infrastructure-with-bu...
"one major provider" = 8.8.8.8 On 24/01/22 16:43, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
*EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities** * Catalin Cimpanu
January 19, 2022
The European Union is interested in building its own recursive DNS service that will be made available to EU institutions and the general public for free.
The proposed service, named DNS4EU, is currently in a project planning phase, and the EU is looking for partners to help build a sprawling infrastructure to serve all its current 27 member states.
EU officials said they started looking into an EU-based centrally-managed DNS service after observing consolidation in the DNS market around a small handful of non-EU operators.
“The deployment of DNS4EU aims to address such consolidation of DNS resolution in the hands of few companies, which renders the resolution process itself vulnerable in case of significant events affecting one major provider,” officials said in the DNS4EU infrastructure project revealed last week.
But EU officials said that other factors also played a role in their decision to build DNS4EU, including cybersecurity and data privacy.
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continua qui: https://therecord.media/eu-wants-to-build-its-own-dns-infrastructure-with-bu...
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