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Re: Google announces uProxy

#21

Post by anon1385 »

Grue3 wrote: post #17
draugadrotten wrote: post #12

> "If someone from a country with limited internet access installs uProxy, they can get a friend from the US to authorize them to surf the open web using their connection. " In effect, they would also be sending all their sensitive, potentially illegal traffic to be read and copied by the american NSA agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2... People proxying illegal traffic through the U…

Why would somebody who lives outside of USA care about US agencies? All I want is to bypass my own country's censorship.

Because non-Americans still have to worry about being abducted off the street and tortured by American agents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_El-Masri

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by draugadrotten »

Grue3 wrote: post #17
draugadrotten wrote: post #12

> "If someone from a country with limited internet access installs uProxy, they can get a friend from the US to authorize them to surf the open web using their connection. " In effect, they would also be sending all their sensitive, potentially illegal traffic to be read and copied by the american NSA agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2... People proxying illegal traffic through the U…

Why would somebody who lives outside of USA care about US agencies? All I want is to bypass my own country's censorship.

You may want to care about US agencies because: - you or your family members may want to travel to the USA or one of its allies. - the USA may trade your information with other states, including your own country - you may want to protect your own country from USA's spying

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by z92 »

Grue3 wrote: post #17
draugadrotten wrote: post #12

> "If someone from a country with limited internet access installs uProxy, they can get a friend from the US to authorize them to surf the open web using their connection. " In effect, they would also be sending all their sensitive, potentially illegal traffic to be read and copied by the american NSA agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2... People proxying illegal traffic through the U…

Why would somebody who lives outside of USA care about US agencies? All I want is to bypass my own country's censorship.

Because they are now vulnerable to blackmail from US agencies which can force them to work as their spies.

"Hello, This is NSA. Will you please provide us name of all your team members, your sponsors, and do a few work for us? Otherwise we have a log file that your government will love to see."

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by nwh »

Grue3 wrote: post #17
draugadrotten wrote: post #12

> "If someone from a country with limited internet access installs uProxy, they can get a friend from the US to authorize them to surf the open web using their connection. " In effect, they would also be sending all their sensitive, potentially illegal traffic to be read and copied by the american NSA agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2... People proxying illegal traffic through the U…

Why would somebody who lives outside of USA care about US agencies? All I want is to bypass my own country's censorship.

Don't know about you, but I'm in Australia - which is under the USA's "five eyes" program. I think it's very much my concern.

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by knob »

I wouldn't trust Google with this.

Fuck no.

Why don't they help develop the Tor plugin?

Why don't the open up a whole bunch of Tor nodes?

Wait... scratch that last one.

This is just bad.

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by mhaymo »

_wmd wrote: post #13
simfoo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source + p2p. Why wouldn't you trust it?

Automatic updates?

So turn them off. You can do that in Firefox, I don't know about Chrome, but if you're using that then you already are trusting Google just as much as if you use this extension.

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by qwerta »

Grue3 wrote: post #17
draugadrotten wrote: post #12

> "If someone from a country with limited internet access installs uProxy, they can get a friend from the US to authorize them to surf the open web using their connection. " In effect, they would also be sending all their sensitive, potentially illegal traffic to be read and copied by the american NSA agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2... People proxying illegal traffic through the U…

Why would somebody who lives outside of USA care about US agencies? All I want is to bypass my own country's censorship.

Because those agencies may eventually leak out that information. If their never delete stuff, everything they have will eventually be published in zeta-byte level leak.

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by dpd126 »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #16
tombrossman wrote: post #9

Fast forward a year, HN headline: "Google shutting down uProxy". It looks interesting and I'm sure some number of people will find it useful while it lasts.

How exactly could they shut it down? Its a client-side browser extension that uses peer-to-peer connections. It doesn't run on any of Google's infrastructure. I'm getting a bit tired of seeing this comment every time Google release a new product. I understand that people think they're being insightful in saying this, but they're really not.

Furthermore, it's not even created by Google directly:

> "uProxy has been developed at the University of Washington, with help from Brave New Software. The project was seeded by Google Ideas."

Re: Google announces uProxy

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Post by esteth »

knob wrote: post #25

I wouldn't trust Google with this. Fuck no. Why don't they help develop the Tor plugin? Why don't the open up a whole bunch of Tor nodes? Wait... scratch that last one. This is just bad.

Because it appears to be open source and peer to peer, so you don't need to trust Google at all?
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