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 Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:14 pm
With all of this talk of the Lieberman "Killswitch" Bill and the encroachment on privacy by intelligence services in recent years, both abroad and domestically, I feel that we have a right to privacy and so does StartPage. http://www.startpage.com/This search engine claims to not record your IP or any other personal information. If you want to be really private you can use the encrypted version. https://www.startpage.com/They have a proxy service that will allow you to visit any page anonymously (over an encrypted connection if you use the second link). I thought this might be interesting and useful to everyone here.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:11 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:41 am
Thanks, Obscurus, I shall certainly give it a try.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:21 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:55 pm
...what exactly is a company like Google going to do with your search results? We've already seen that Google is anti-censorship (they withdrew from China after they kept forcing Google to censor their results)
The worst that can happen will be that we get targeted advertising (OH NO!!)
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:52 pm
Sciamancer ...what exactly is a company like Google going to do with your search results? We've already seen that Google is anti-censorship (they withdrew from China after they kept forcing Google to censor their results) The worst that can happen will be that we get targeted advertising (OH NO!!) Or something happens akin to what AOL did that ended up putting private user data on the web for everyone to see... If they collect the data there's the risk of that data being stolen and exploited.
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:42 am
Thank you for these.
@sciamancer: One of the google bigwigs has already pretty much said be careful what you do online, because they will give up sensitive information if they need to.
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:22 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:54 am
What exactly is putting up your search results going to do?
IP Address 555.555.555 looked up "How to draw anime" on google!!! This is public knowledge!
OH NO NOW ****** ARE GOING TO EAT ME.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:56 pm
Sciamancer What exactly is putting up your search results going to do? IP Address 555.555.555 looked up "How to draw anime" on google!!! This is public knowledge! OH NO NOW ****** ARE GOING TO EAT ME. Putting up your IP address, your browser, your operating system, your search interests, etc. is throwing out all the pieces that a nefarious individual would need to compromise your computer, if they were so inclined. It may not be your real name and your SSN, but it could quickly lead to that.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:18 pm
You know that encrypting your IP address is a felony, right?
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:33 pm
The rose in spring You know that encrypting your IP address is a felony, right? I'd like a citation for that but it's irrelevant considering you're not encrypting your IP address. You're using Secure Socket Layer encryption (built into most browsers and typically used whenever you sign into your email) and you're using a proxy. Your actual IP address is never touched. Your ISP just can't peep in on what your doing (SSL) and the proxy makes it so that the recipient of your traffic doesn't know its true source. This essentially keeps you anonymous.
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:02 am
biggrin They recently released that version.
I <3 Ixquick, i've been using them for nearly a year now! :O
I don't trust google at ALL. ;_;
And sadly i'm essentially stuck with my gmail account cuz its hooked up to my bank and paypal accounts. *sigh*
Tracked forever. ;_;
Thankfully tho, riseup.net has secure email too! biggrin
I has a side account.
now im getting off topic
*shutting up now*
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:50 pm
Interesting. My mom actually has this as her home page. She heard of it through this one radio program Coast To Coast AM I think.
I use Google Chrome, though, so obviously I'm not too worried about what google "spies" on me usually.
I mean, what are they going to do about me searching up something like, "Shiva" or "Kumquat" in it's search to go to wikipedia?
I also like having my websearch history on my google account to look back on over the years.
I might start to use this for my torrenting though. That's about the only thing I'm a 'lil paranoid about.
>.>
<.<
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:21 am
true but other sites sometimes look back in your history and such, and google chrome, while it works excellently, seems untrustworthy, having your account hooked up to your browser... it basically means google has possibly our every password and login, and such. :[
I suggest using firefox for your torrenting wink
Linux is possibly the most secure OS, but you should have a tecchie whom you trust to help teach you how to be secure.
As a side note, check out portableapps.com...
Not all computers are able to boot via disk or flash drive, so you wont be able to use ubuntu all the time. sad
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