When you enter a web address into your browser and arrive at the correct website a second later, a process takes place that most people never notice. Behind the scenes, one of the internet’s most important systems is at work: DNS, the Domain Name System. In his doctoral thesis, computer scientist Jonathan Magnusson investigates how effectively today’s DNS infrastructure protects users’ privacy and what shortcomings remain.
Internet’s address book is becoming more private, but DNS still exposes browsing patterns
