Bug#761658: Please do not default to using Google nameservers

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

btw: Letting people use unknowingly a specific nameserver may have also
further consequences than just privacy leakage.

Since e.g. the Google nameservers are well known to allow people to
circumvent DNS blocks, they're quite likely under special observation by
governmental agencies in autocratic countries like China, Turkey, etc.
where internet censorship is daily practise.
So if you use these services you may actually get into troubles... and I
guess we don't make Debian just for people in "safe" countries.

If you don't see the thread in the above schema, take the following
comparable example:
According to the US secretary of justice (IIRC), Tor is just used by
criminals and paedophiles (o.O), and we all know since Snowden that
people using Tor are specially flaged and that it has already happened
that such people were taken into custody when crossing the US border.
So we should perhaps not make Tor the default and maybe wikileaks.org
the default homepage in browsers.
Neither should we give people a Tor config that relays per default,
cause it may get them really into troubles even in Europe.

And it's not that I wouldn't support the goals of things like Tor - but
the decision what to use and what not should be left at the user/admin
in the form of a deliberate decision, and not an opt-out decsision.


Cheers,
Chris.
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