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Explore passive privacy-respecting collection of DNS transaction data in this 40-minute conference talk. Learn how DNS serves as metadata for discovering, describing, and reaching internet assets. Understand the varying levels of personally identifiable information within DNS data and discover techniques for indirectly studying the internet while protecting user privacy. Delve into methods for ambitiously scrubbing or avoiding the collection of individual user identity and behavior. Gain insights into the importance of privacy-conscious data collection for behavioral security work. Follow Dr. Vixie's demonstration of these techniques and explore the resulting possibilities for internet analysis. Cover topics including DNS basics, server architecture, data anonymization, deduplication, and practical use cases, concluding with a hands-on demo.
