Re: duckduckgo

[Aaron Hockett <AHockett () WARNERPACIFIC EDU>]

Oh come now Tim.... then we wouldn't be giving NoScript any credit now would we? :)

-Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Doty
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:16 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] duckduckgo

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 10:11 -0500, Isabelle Graham wrote:
> I haven't seen that and I'm using the same browser but I installed it 
> in a slightly different way. There's a button in the bottom right-hand 
> corner of the page (it's grey text on white button, so kind of hard to
> see) that should say "Firefox" (in Chrome it will say "Chrome"). If 
> you click on this it will give you a pop-up with a link to the 
> DuckDuckGo search engine add-on (which is SSL by default, also nice). 
> Maybe give that a try?

SSL is nice but, if you're like me, you may want to use the lite version of the search that is javascript free. Just 
wanted to point that out.

Tim Doty

> Isabelle Graham
> Information Security Engineer
> American University
>
> On 2012-01-26 10:03, Kevin Shalla wrote:
> > I use Firefox 9, and when I follow the path for what I think should 
> > add a search engine
> > - choose select search engine drop-down list, Manage Search Engines...
> > -> Get more search engines... then search on duckduckgo, then press 
> > -> the
> > Download Now button for DuckDuckGo SSL Search Engine (HTTPS), I get 
> > the following. Has anyone overcome this problem?
> > Other add ons work fine.
> >
> > This XML file does not appear to have any style information 
> > associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
> > <OpenSearchDescription><ShortName>DuckDuckGo
> > (SSL)</ShortName><Description>Search DuckDuckGo 
> > (SSL)</Description><InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding><LongName>Duc
> > kDuckGo SSL Search</LongName><Image height="16" width="16"
> > type="image/x-icon">data:image/x-icon;base64,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!
 gC
> cg7P8nIOz/JyDs/8/N+///////////////////////iIX1/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8n
> IOz/JyDsfycg7CYnIOz2JyDs/ycg7P9FP+7/q6n4/+7u/f/n5v3/fXn0/yoj7P8nIOz/Jy
> Ds/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs9icg7CYAAAAAJyDscCcg7P8nIOz/wsD6/+no/f/Y1/z/eHTz/ycg
> 7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7HAAAAAAAAAAACcg7AEnIOy1JyDs/ycg7P8nIO
> z/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7LUnIOwBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJyDs
> AScg7HAnIOz2JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs9icg7HAnIOwBAAAAAAAAAA
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJyDsJicg7IAnIOyzJyDs5icg7OYnIOyzJyDsgCcg7CYAAAAA
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA+B8AAPAPAADAAwAAwAMAAIABAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> ABAACAAQAAwAMAAMADAADwDwAA+B8AAA==</Image><Url
> > type="text/html" method="get"
> > template="https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}"/></OpenSearchDesc
> > ription>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/25/2012 1:00 PM, Isabelle Graham 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]
> > > and their bang syntax is a nice feature 
> > > [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> 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
> > > >
> > > > 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