Unlike other similar (and often suspicious) websites:
- you do not enter your phone number (or email). You just search yourself (or your close ones) by name, the same way you would Google or Facebook yourself or your friends.
- even if that shouldn't be the only trust signal, we (the folks at NextDNS) work around security and privacy every day for the benefits of the users. And while we are still a startup, we are used by many, including experts in the security industry.
Following the release of the 533 million phone numbers (acquired through the 2019 Facebook vulnerability), we wanted to bring awareness to the security & privacy implications of a public worldwide mobile phonebook.
You can check yourself, your family, friends and colleagues and inform them.
Disclaimer: we do not display (or even store) the phone numbers, we only show the last 2 digits so you can confirm it's yours.
Happy to answer related security and privacy questions.
We made an online generator for (signed) Apple Configuration Profiles that let you use the new system Encrypted DNS feature of iOS 14/iPadOS 14/tvOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, without the need for an app.
The Configuration ID field is entirely optional and if left blank, you will be using our no-logs non-blocking DNS resolver (the one included in Firefox and soon Google Chrome). For reference, here is a map of our anycast network: https://i.imgur.com/doL6nkr.png
Google Chrome (and some Chromium forks) will also be supporting custom DNS-over-HTTPS providers very soon (it's already being rolled out to some users).
Looks like a case of bad anycast routing, as we have a PoP in Toronto! It happens and is usually easily fixable, can you talk to us via the chat on our website (or at [email protected])?
This is a v1 of our analyzer, but it's already doing a lot of things to mimic a real user (like using a real browser, moving the mouse, scrolling, etc.).
We try to shine a light on the implications of this on the website itself (you may need to scroll down a bit).
Short term, just being aware of it should make things better, as there is going to be a massive surge in phishing and other types of attacks.