GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required 152
An anonymous reader writes "GoogleSharing, the popular Google anonymizing service created by well known privacy advocate and security researcher Moxie Marlinspike, has released a major new version today. The biggest change is leveraging Google's SSL search option to provide an anonymizing service which doesn't require you to trust either Google or GoogleSharing. This means that anyone who wishes to opt out of Google's data collection practices can now do so without having to trust the operator of the anonymizing service."
There is still man-in-the-middle attack (Score:3, Interesting)
Isn't there?
Re:Suddenly, it doesn't feel like '1984' anymore! (Score:4, Interesting)
I would think the same privacy they want for the right reasons you want for the right reasons. To be able to have privacy.
Re:No, not Really? (Score:5, Interesting)
Let me refer you to the second sentence of the summary:
"The biggest change is leveraging Google's SSL search option to provide an anonymizing service which doesn't require you to trust either Google or GoogleSharing."
Wow.
You are right. That says I don't have trust google or googlesharing. ... assuming I trust the entity that makes that claim.
Oh. The entity making the claim that I don't need to trust GoogleSharing is GoogleSharing. Neat.
So if I don't trust googlesharing, why would my distrust be satisfied by the fact that they claim I don't need to trust them? That makes about as much sense as a fly asking the spider if he can take a nap on the web... the spider said he wasn't hungry... I guess there's nothing to worry about. :facepalm
Now, if you had instead referred me to the googlesharing FAQ:
http://googlesharing.net/faq.html#faq6 [googlesharing.net]
"If you're still worried, remember that the GoogleSharing addon and proxy code is publicly available. So it's possible for you to run a GoogleSharing proxy yourself, or to find someone who you do trust."
That's at least a step in the right direction. I can inspect and run the software on a server I do trust.*
And if I use the GoogleSharing servers, than I do still need to trust GoogleSharing to be running the software they claim to be running. I expect they are worthy of that trust but you still have to trust them unless you are running your own server after inspecting the source.*
** And you will need to find a bunch of people who trust YOU using your server for you to derive any privacy benefit from running your own server. Bit of a catch-22 there.
Re:Suddenly, it doesn't feel like '1984' anymore! (Score:3, Interesting)
Grammar and spelling as a virtual fingerprint...
I don't believe anything could go wrong at all.
In any event, I am afraid it is time to unveil your true identity using the grammar and spelling footprint technique. I say to you Mr. Abraham Lincoln... how does it feel to be unmasked by your own musings!
Re:Suddenly, it doesn't feel like '1984' anymore! (Score:4, Interesting)
That will all get noted and linked back to a friend of a friend of a friend who has been flagged as a person of interest.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5jex52BhXYEJ:wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief,_INDECT_Work_Package_4,_2009+INDECT+Work+Package+4&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk [googleusercontent.com] as
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief,_INDECT_Work_Package_4,_2009 [wikileaks.org] seems to be down. The NSA/GCHQ ect dont care where/how the text comes from, public/private/mirrored ect, just keep it in flowing in a usable form. Add in voice chat too
do you know how instant search works? (Score:4, Interesting)
they pass each keystroke in real time to the servers.
go ahead, type carefully..
they'll see each letter as typed and "fingerprint" you that way
the typing speed and corrected mispellings even without you hitting 'search'
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Re:Suddenly, it doesn't feel like '1984' anymore! (Score:3, Interesting)