fair

why do you say that?

Lemmy news is a cesspit from a post POV but other than that shrug

I think there are more straight shooters here, could be dude just had bad takes.

It is too easy to accidentally downvote.

I love all for its psychotic randomness.

We should assume most users are not going to be criminals.

For users who are criminals, instance administrators are on the hook to help the feds catch the bad guys. If the bad guys are using mobile devices, it’s a slam dunk right?

100% in a democratically elected country governed by the rule of law, an instance admin should be handing over logs to their regional authorities to pursue child pornographers to the full extent possible.

One assumes most child pornographers know this, so they are going to use other methods to mask their IP. Those other methods are going to be filtered out by DNS whitelist - even if a user utilized a mobile device 99% of the time, the minute they try to anonymize their criminal content, it’s more likely to be gated right at the source.

Why wouldn’t you whitelist *.mobile.att.net?

Why does it matter? Read some of my other posts.

why do you say that, knowing full well DNS whitelists rely on wildcards?

Yes. I am well aware and that would be by design.

remember - if someone on a major mobile network is uploading child photography, that device is radioactive and an instance admin is going to have options they may not have in other situations.

The idea is give instance admins control over who uploads content. Perhaps they don’t want mobile users to upload content, or perhaps they do but only major carriers, by their own definition of major.

Somewhere between “everyone” and “nobody” is an answer.

giving the instance administrator tools to help quarantine bad actors only helps, which will require layers. Reverse DNS is a cost, however; perhaps the tax is worth it when hosting images, where there is already a pause point in the end user experience, and the ramifications so severe.

Larger instances may dilligaf but a smaller instance may need to be very careful…

Just sayin…

fwiw the wide area / global internet would fall apart without DNS.

Local networking ignores DNS for the most part. Your home router, for example, doesn’t need a DNS to route packets from your ISP to your device. or IP for that matter. Ethernet alone is enough.

DNS itself is unrelated to geography.

Geography at best is an ISP convention.

Most geographic maps utilize physical routing to guess a DNS location. At best a DNS relationship to geography is a finger in the air, many times it’s just wrong.

if someone had no DNS it is more likely they are up to no good when accessing Lemmy. It is not foolproof however a smaller instance would be reasonably protected.

They, I imagine, care less about who the user is (username) and more about the user’s internet gateway (DNS). Only the instances that woke up to GB of child pornography know how they got there.

There is a cpu hit for this sort of thing so it is not free.

That’s how the internet works? Every device on the internet has an IP address and most IP devices are assigned a unique DNS name for that address.

That DNS has a topography (a.b.c.com) so that you could whitelist (*.b.c.com). Mobile Devices, Home Networks, College & Corporate campuses…all are probably going to have a DNS associated with then. Entire swathes of the internet could be whitelisted fairly easily…or not.

Yes it would not be fool proof. However IP whitelisting would rapidly lose its meaning.

Every person on the internet has a DNS record that loops back to them. The DNS has a topography so that various elements of a domain could be whitelisted, or not.

It would be trivial to queue a request to white list, where an administrator could decide if it is worth it, having it auto expire over time.

Instance admins could share sources of bad actors.

heuristics could help determine the risk of an approval action.

No I mean the user’s DNS should be whitelisted to permit uploads. If DNS not on whitelist then no upload, period.

The problem is people and people have DNS.

Not IP. DNS whitelist. This way if a geography or subnet is responsible for illegal material they are only allowed in if an instance granted +w.

An option to prevent users to upload unless their DNS has been whitelisted. It would require explicit permission to upload, which could be handy for smaller instances.

wouldn’t it be just as easy to whitelist DNS?

I agree videos are not great but I imagine the NSFW communities may have a different stance.

agree

I predict in the future, there will be two forms of useful information:

• code, which can be compiled to do something.
• books.

Everything else will be seen as entertainment…and should we not be entertained?

I wonder if future historians will look at all of us the same way we view Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned.