Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous
by eli on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:41PM
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These aren't really offsite images. ddgw.s3.amazonaws.com is a server instance run by DDG. It just happens to live in Amazon's cloud.
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Yes, but the headers are sent in plaintext.
I don't think they are actually: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499591/are-https-urls-enc...
That was about the headers to the image server which was not using https at the time I believe ?
No, they aren't.
Not any more but they were when that was written. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362122
Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous
by mike-cardwell on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @05:07PM
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I think you might be confusing S3 with EC2? I think "offsite images" is an apt description for stuff served from Amazons web frontend to S3... DDG don't run it, they just upload the content to it.