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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
why should I trust google for an application that would enhance my internet privacy?
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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
It's a valid issue, in that it's vile the way the US Government sometimes behaves, but that is not a realistic concern for 99.999999% of the world population.
> "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…
Interestingly, this is the second Google project on HN today that caters to people in oppressive countries. uProxy and recently announced Project Shield [1]. The major targets are Syria and Iran. Incidentally, they're also targets for the US military :) Intel from the enemy territory will certainly be of interest.
Good PR that Google is getting from it is in no way helping with mass surveillance at home, which they're themselves a big part of.
It will be very interesting for us living in Iran. We have a lot of friends abroad.
Unless the addon is really sneaky and confirmed by a lot of people chances are it will still be detectable by DPI. And you have the problem of the addon traversing the state firewall in the first place.
And you need secure OOB way to transport password anyway.
From what I see you need secure way to transport keys and don't minding to raise a few red flags with the authorities.
In that case just rent micro instance with any out of country cloud provider you have access to and ssh tunnel trough it.
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.
(Not saying that that will happen, just clarifying what I presume is the grandparent's point)
why should I trust google for an application that would enhance my internet privacy?
Privacy is not mentioned at all in the article. This is about bypassing censorship.
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?