On 9/15/2011 8:32 AM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
A friend of mind turned me on to https://www.google.com aka to have an
encrypted conversation with Google.
I've been using it, since I like as much crypt-o traffic on the net as
possible.
But why? Anyone have any intelligent toughs on the subject, I would like
to hear your take on the service and what it's good for.
1. Your search results are valuable. People can be recognized for who
they are based on what they search for. (There have been articles on that.)
2. More important than your search results are your logins to Google
such as for GMail and other services. You would probably not appreciate
finding out later that someone was secretly getting CC:ed on every email
you send and receive, and used this information in order to change the
ownership on your domain name(s) via email while you were away on vacation.
3. A natural extension of the combination above is "if it's going over
the 'net, it should be encrypted if possible." So if there's an
encrypted version of the same service available, use it.
4. Have a quick look at DuckDuckGo as an alternative to Google.
https://duckduckgo.com/
And read about what Google does that they don't tell you.
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