EP051

EP051 – Watch your Pi Hole
Music provided by: Denis Kreynin https://soundcloud.com/denis-kreynin

Greetings & Banter
Max records from balmy Winnipeg while Matt laments driving off his boss. Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus and something about Mike Tyson I can’t recall. I promised to watch arrested development and broke that promise straight away. What is this, TV time with Max and Matt? Pffft.

Housekeeping

Recap last episode topics: It’s about control. default passwords are bad, guest wifi network, password managers, limiting privileges you run every day computing with, fw rules

knowing what’s going out your network is also important

Topic for this week: Domain Name Systems control

This time we start talking about what it means to secure your DNS queries to the Internet. DNS stands for Domain Name Service and acts as a lookup table from friendly names, like blackberry.com, to their corresponding address on the internet over internet protocol, like 208.65.75.22.

OpenDNS DNS server IP addresses and a setup guide

We spend a lot of time talking about the power of DNS to hijack traffic, trick people to click on links that are spoofing real tech, prevent malware from being resolved, avoiding geofencing and more. one of the tools to help with this is pihole, and another is circle.