The fastest DNS server isn’t always the one you should use

I've been running 1.1.1.1 as my default DNS for years because it was the fastest, and every benchmark I ran after that confirmed it. What I never did was check whether being fast was the only thing it was doing. Last week, I pointed a script at 30 known-malicious domains pulled fresh from URLhaus, queried each one through 1.1.1.1, and watched all...

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