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Google's gonna hate this! ghostwalker 01-05-2008
Posted by Dennis Davis on January 14, 2008, 6:05 am
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>As we know Google has no data retention policy and they log all
>searches along with your IP address.
>
>Well not anymore.

...

What does this do that the scroogle scraper:

http://www.scroogle.org/

or more generally the Tor project:

https://www.torproject.org/

can't do?
--
Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
D.H.Davis@bath.ac.uk

Posted by on February 1, 2008, 4:17 pm
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I agree that we shouldn't trust proxies too much, but it's also true
about scroogle, isn't? Therefore I suggest using obfuscation tools to
protect your searches like TrackMeNot (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/
trackmenot/) or SquiggleSR (that I'm developing: http://squigglesr.free.fr
). These Firefox extensions automatically generate queries to search
engines to confuse search engines data-mining algorithms.
Since these programs are open source, you can trust them: TrackMeNot
is under Creative commons and SquiggleSR is under GPL. In fact these
tools address most problems mentioned by Gerald, excepting problem
number one since Google policy is not the same in every country.
I know that obfuscation may not appear as safe as anonymity, but it
has some advantages:
*Proxies are not compliant with personalized searches.
*Proxies are useless when the ISP itself records the traffic and
they'll certainly be useless to bypass Android. Some could argue that
traffic encryption can be used, but it's not that easy for most people
to encrypt traffic.
*=83nAnonymisation is not adapted for every situation. For instance, in
the GReader case, anonymisation would have been a non-sense while
obfuscation could have been useful. Many users want to keep access to
online services and do not want to be anonymous. "privacy no longer
can mean anonymity".
Furthermore I took most critics into account in the development of
SquiggleSR (notice that TrackMeNot has been updated also).

SquiggleSR remains under development, I'll appreciate any comments.


Vince



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