Re: Google announces privacy changes, no opt out for users

[Karl Bernard <karl.bernard () GMAIL COM>]

I think this may be a bit overly-sunny, but it is an interesting take on
the upcoming Google policy shift:
http://www.datamation.com/security/googles-new-privacy-policy-ignore-the-hype-1.html

I know this is veering off-topic, but if you want guaranteed non-tracked
email, paying for it is the only way to go, imho. As long as it's free,
there's going to have to be something to pay for it, and advertisers have
gotten used to being able to get targeted eyeballs for their pitches.

Karl Bernard
Senior Information Security Analyst
UTHealth, Academic Health Center at Houston


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Isabelle Graham <graham () american edu>wrote:

> I've been using it for a while now (for various reasons) and I really like
> it. For those of you that keep cookies between sessions, they have some
> really nice options [http://duckduckgo.com/**settings.html<http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html>]
> and their bang syntax is a nice feature [http://duckduckgo.com/bang.**html<http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html>].
> Definitely recommended.
> Now I just need  a good free web-based email alternative...
>
> Isabelle Graham
> Information Security Engineer
> American University
>
>
> On 2012-01-25 13:40, Solem, Vik P. wrote:
>
> > On 2012-01-25 12:20 , "Steve Bohrer"<skbohrer@SIMONS-ROCK.**EDU<skbohrer () SIMONS-ROCK EDU>>
> >  wrote:
> >
> >
> >  On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Martin Manjak wrote:
> > >  Time to switch your default search engine.
> > > >
> > >
> > >   https://duckduckgo.com
> >
> > Wow!  Nice!  I like it.  Fast.  No ads.
> >
> >  Perhaps promising, though I've not used it much yet, so can't vouch
> > > for the quality of search. The main idea they are selling is that they
> > > don't retain user data:
> > >
> > >   https://duckduckgo.com/**privacy.html<https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html>
> >
> > I like it even better.
> >
> >
> >  It would be nice if this idea catches on as a valuable thing to look
> > > for in online services.
> >
> >
> > Yes.  I just changed my Google Chrome instance to use it as the default
> > search engine.  I'll see how it goes.  Might just have to change over my
> > other machines/browsers.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > -Vik
> >
> >
> > Vik Solem, CISSP, Sr. Applications Risk Consultant
> > Tufts University, Information Security, vik.solem () tufts edu /
> > 617-627-4326
> > InfoSec Team: information_security () tufts edu / 617-627-6070