Isn’t monitoring DNS queries a really bad idea? If the monitoring crosses the line to surveillance, we agree. Monitoring for bad actors is still needed and valuable for cybersecurity. Building such a platform in Open Source and running it as a non-profit is much better than letting commercial actors consume this data without making it an open data commons. For sure many won’t protect the user’s privacy the way we do.

This is the story about the DNS TAPIR Open Source project - the reason we started it, our core principles and the architecture .