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		pat2man on Jan 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Security Checklist Probably more of an issue for people on public WiFi networks. Who knows what dns provider is being sent from DHCP. Cloudflare is easy.

gruez on Jan 15, 2019 [–]

>Who knows what dns provider is being sent from DHCP.

What's the concern here? That it's set to some DNS provider that does evil things? If they intercept DNS requests (not unusual as even my home router can do that), this migitation is useless and you're sending your DNS requests to a third party.

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