https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/privacy/ Recent content in Privacy on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/dns/dns-over-https-walks-past-your-controls/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/dns/dns-over-https-walks-past-your-controls/ DoH sends your DNS lookup to a resolver of the client's choosing on port 443, which your own resolver never sees, so it cannot block a bad name or log it. Sold as privacy, but DoT gave you that in 2016. What DoH really adds is bypassing the network admin. The mechanism, the malware, who pushed it, the courts now suing the resolvers, and the fix. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-news-site-sent-me-the-article-then-deleted-it/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-news-site-sent-me-the-article-then-deleted-it/ UK news sites send the whole article, then their vendors' code deletes it if you block ads. How it works on Newsquest, National World and Reach titles, why I call it malware, the Chrome extension I built in a day to stop it, the fixes that made it worse, and how the consent-or-pay walls get refused. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-renting-costs/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-renting-costs/ Part 2 of 8. Once moving supplier is hard, the costs change shape. The price follows how hard it is to leave. Profit gets declared somewhere other than where it was earned. The law that applies follows who owns the company, not where the building stands. And a service can stop for reasons that have nowt to do with you. Plain language, with sources. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/backdoors-and-who-is-accused/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/backdoors-and-who-is-accused/ Part 6 of 8. Barring a supplier on security grounds needs a standard applied evenly. A Swiss inquiry confirmed two intelligence services owned an encryption firm and sold weakened machines to 120+ governments; a crypto standard was pulled over a suspected weakness; kit gets intercepted in transit. Then the 2024 event that settled it.