Anonymity system for Google called GoogleSharing
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Anonymity system for Google called GoogleSharing
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#2Looks like Scroogle, which we discussed earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=990874
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#3That's Moxie Marlinspike, great hacker who had some recent SSL findings:
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/papers/null-prefix-attacks.pdf
and
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-09/bh-usa-09-archives.ht... http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-17-archive.h...
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#4Prediction: Google will slap them with a C&D for using their trademark and brand (the word "Google"), which will bring further publicity to this service.
Prediction 2: it will die anyway.
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#5Takedown notice in 5.. 4... 3...
When I started reading, I though it was a genius move being done by Google itself, until I got to the word "they" and then scanned down and saw the Eric Schmidt quote. Yeah, confusing.
They might allow it to stay up for a few days to generate some discussion though... we'll see.
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#6This is actually a great idea. If Google has a problem with them using their name in the URL then I'm sure they'll make a stink about it, get free press, change it and continue on their merry way.
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#7Prediction: Google will slap them with a C&D for using their trademark and brand (the word "Google"), which will bring further publicity to this service. Prediction 2: it will die anyway.
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Re: Anonymity system for Google called GoogleSharing
#8This reduces to the same problem of trusting a single third party with your search queries. If I understand correctly, a corrupt or compromised GoogleSharing proxy could leak your searches. This is not a hypothetical threat. There are already false anonymous proxies deployed and being monitored.
A mix net can address that issue, but then we're just talking about something like Tor.
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#9Google's Chinese users who may be labeled as "subversives" by their government should be using it.
If the Aurora attacks were successful, the next thing the Chinese regime would've done is demand from Google all information about the users it found as subversive: in such a case, the attacks were just to get the right usernames from which to request further information on from Google.
Re: Anonymity system for Google called GoogleSharing
#10Google's Chinese users who may be labeled as "subversives" by their government should be using it. If the Aurora attacks were successful, the next thing the Chinese regime would've done is demand from Google all information about the users it found as subversive: in such a case, the attacks were just to get the right usernames from which to request further information on from Google.
How would users identify which proxies are safe? There are already dishonest proxies being operated with the intent of monitoring who uses them. I think using Tor is safer.