Is OpenDns safe for online shopping or other secure site browsing?

Question

I am thinking about switching to OpenDNS but I am conserned about online shopping. It seems that if every site I visit passes through OpenDNS, wont they have copies of my personal information?

Answer 1

Yes every server that your data passes through will have your data on their server. Same for your emails. You delete your email, only to clean out your inbox. This does not mean that you have deleted your email as it is available from every server that handled the email transaction. An expert forensic computer person with a warrant can retrieve the data if it was requested from a federal agency or local police.

When you use your credit card, refuse cookies so that your personal data is not remembered. Better to type in the data all over again the next time you use your credit card. The last three digits on the front or back of your credit card is encrypted when going out.

Look for the icon, "VeriSign Secured". If you don't see the sign/icon where you will use your credit card, I would not trust the credit card transaction over the internet.

Minddoctor, France

Answer 2

No. Unlike a proxy which sees all you transactions in and out of your computer, OpenDNS only sees the names of the web sites. Now, if they were corrupt (which they are not), they could direct you to a proxy which could copy all your transactions.

The more advanced users know to not accept certificates that are not from a known signer (which would detect an inserted proxy) that has been verified by a trusted signer. The details of how authentication works is too much to go into here.

Answer 3

Opendns Safe

Answer 4

make sure the site has a real street address, they shoudl also have phone numbers ont he site, phone them to check they are real, that way any probelms you can phone them to sort it out.