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marshray on June 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo ...

1. The NSA isn't the only threat to privacy on the net.

2. DDG is SSL, so there's some hope that the traffic is not visible to a passive observer, even the NSA.

wnevets on June 13, 2013 [–]

Google is also SSL. There was a post on here a day or two ago with the theory that PRISM is really about intercepting and cracking SSL certs

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