The cloud isn’t magic—it’s someone else’s network, rented by the minute. Master it, or it will master you. The Illusion of the Cloud People love saying “it’s in the cloud”—as if that erases the need for cables, routers, and subnets. It doesn’t. Every byte of “cloud” data still travels through copper, fiber, and radio waves. The only difference is that
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Why DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)? — The Primer Before we get deep into why DoH makes IT admins sweat, let’s start with why it exists in the first place. Traditional DNS Is a Massive Privacy Leak Every time you visit a website, your device asks a DNS server: “Hey, what’s the IP for gimmecatsinbowties.com?” And that query goes out completely unencrypted [¹].