Investigating DoH

DNS Security As a plain-text protocol, DNS lacks Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) protections. An attacker who can observe DNS activity can see where the DNS request originated from, where responses came from, what the query and response were, or tamper with the response. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) effectively mitigates many of those weaknesses. Instead of being a plain-text protocol over UDP, DoH is an exchange of DNS queries and responses over a TLS encrypted connection, using the HTTP2 protocol to transmit messages. Because of this encryption, an attacker can neither observe nor tamper with DoH queries and responses. ...

December 31, 2019 · 5 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2019

On Cyber: Towards an Operational Art for Cyber Conflict Red Badge of Courage Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World Mercy Watson au cine-parc Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery Capital in the 21st Century How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman–Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future The Wright Brothers John Adams On China Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War Never Grow Up Alexander Hamilton Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Starship Troopers Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2019 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2018

On War Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Violence of Action: Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War The Sun Also Rises Grapes of Wrath Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground Unbreakable: A Navy SEAL’s Way of Life A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City The Future of War: A History A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Germ Laboratory Leonardo da Vinci The Phoenix Project (A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win) Energy and Civilization: A History Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Brave New World The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals A Long Way Home: A Memoir Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2018 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2017

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Cryptonomicon A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age Einstein: His Life and Universe Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise 1776 Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Between the World and Me The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Viper Pilot: The Autobiography of One of America’s Most Decorated Combat Pilots How to Win Friends and Influence People Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2017 · 2 min · Kimo B