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Am 27.01.2012 07:57, schrieb Dale: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Hi list, |
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>> I ran across this news item about Google: |
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>> http://alturl.com/s7xi5 |
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>> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google |
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>> since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next |
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>> they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. I found a |
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>> search engine that may work. It is here: |
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>> www.ixquick.com |
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>> Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I do |
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>> like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool. |
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> OK. This has gotten a LOT of replies with lots of interesting info. I |
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> have another question along the same lines. What about using a VPN? I |
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> been messing with tor and Firefox but if I try to watch a video or |
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> something that has any length to it, it gets rather iffy. I found this: |
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> www.vpn4all.com |
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> I don't think it works with Linux but it was interesting to read about |
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> just for the information. From my understanding, people can't read your |
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> traffic and they can't tell anything about you as far as location. I |
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> know google can do this because when I type in certain things, it all |
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> comes up for local stuff. If I do the same in Firefox with tor turned |
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> on, it gets rather weird. Stuff from Africa was showing up one time and |
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> later on it looked like German stuff. When I checked my IP and did a |
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> whois, it was in other countries. |
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> What are thoughts on this sort of thing? Anything better than tor out |
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> there? Am I getting paranoid or do people really watch us and collect |
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> data on us? :/ |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Well, to summarize it: |
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It solves the following problems: |
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- Your ISP cannot snoop or manipulate your traffic (useful for mobile |
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connections which normally compress images, for example) |
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- Your IP no longer maps directly to you |
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- IP geolocation no longer works reliably |
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It does not solve this problem: |
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- Your browser+cookies still identify you |
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It creates this new problem: |
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- The VPN provider sees all your traffic and your IP (in this regard it |
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is worse than Tor because with Tor, the endpoint sees your traffic and |
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the start point your IP but neither sees both) |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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