A New App Gives Old Android Versions an Important Safety Upgrade
A New App Gives Old Android Versions an Important Safety Upgrade
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 3, 20186m 20s
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Show Notes
Thanks to a push over the last few years, led by Google and others, encrypted HTTPS connections protect more data than ever as it passes between web servers and browsers. But another fundamental component of web browsing too often remains unencrypted: the Domain Name System connections that act as the address lookups of the internet. In Android 9, also known as Android Pie, Google has added a feature called Private DNS to start encrypting DNS on mobile.
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