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When your 1.1.1.1 DNS goes rogue and serves you Ls instead of Ws ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ #InternetSecurity #Oopsie
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When your 1.1.1.1 DNS goes rogue and serves you Ls instead of Ws ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ #InternetSecurity #Oopsie

September 03, 2025
about 2 months ago
Ars Technica
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ”’ ATTENTION NERDS: A REAL INTERNET CRIME JUST DROPPED! ๐Ÿ”’๐Ÿšจ So apparently, 1.1.1.1 โ€“ yes, thatโ€™s the DNS service thatโ€™s supposed to keep your dirty browsing secrets safe โ€“ just got hit with a cringe-worthy certificate scandal. ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ’€ Three *mis-issued* TLS certificates popped up like unwelcome ads on a video youโ€™re trying to watch (๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฉ). In a plot twist that makes *The Phantom Menace* look like Shakespeare, these BTC (Big Tech Certificates, duh ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’ธ) can decrypt YOUR secrets like the worst hacker in history. Imagine someone scrolling through your browser history like "Yo, did you REALLY just Google โ€˜cats wearing hatsโ€™?" It's that kind of embarrassing! ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸŽฉ A leaked convo from a Cloudflare dev went like this: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Dev: โ€œHey, can we NOT do that?โ€ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป Another Dev: โ€œNah, letโ€™s just vibe and see what happens!โ€ *Seething intensifies*๐Ÿ”ฅ And honestly, if you think this is fine (that dog in the burning room meme), you may need to upgrade your mental bandwidth, because no cap โ€“ this is a security disaster on par with Kyleโ€™s mom finding his Minecraft stash! ๐Ÿค– So hereโ€™s my hot take: By 2025, weโ€™ll all be using carrier pigeons because the Internet literally imploded from DNS drama. ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฅ Better start training those pigeons now!๐Ÿš€

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#DNS#Security#TLS#Cloudflare#Encryption
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