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rdsubhas ◴[] No.16728163[source]
> We will never sell your data or use it to target ads. Period.

Won't sell != Won't collect

> We will never log your IP address (the way other companies identify you)

Never log IP != Never log anything

Bonus: The way other companies identify you ~= There are other ways

Edit: Looks like many people assume I'm nitpicking. So here are more specific questions:

* Is logging a hashcode of the IP considered as "not logging the IP"?

* Can combination of timestamp, packet info other than end IP (latency, hops, etc), geoIP and other factors be used for deep intelligence?

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fwgwgwgch ◴[] No.16728183[source]
AFAIK the only data is domain name, record and the incoming ip. I don't care if they store the first two.

Do you have any actual points against or are you just trying to nitpick? And do you have anything better?

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pdkl95 ◴[] No.16728395[source]
> the only data is domain name, record and the incoming ip

Other data that can be logged:

- timestamp - this can be very revealing when correlated with other datasets.j

- ASN - can sometimes act like fingerprint on it's own, and assists in correlating other data (e.g. the timestamp)

- any identifiable variation in the structure or behavior between different DNS resolver implementations. See nmap's "-O" option that detects the OS from the TCP/IP protocol implementation.

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1. fwgwgwgch ◴[] No.16735237[source]
Good answer. Thanks.