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Re:PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its bes... by riquito on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:33PM (#5877046)
It's a fair question, I'm ashamed by the snarky answers.

If Google can't oppose the NSA in installing backdoors (by the way, this has to be demonstrated), DuckDuckGo can't oppose them neither.

Best luck to the team of DuckDuckGo, it's a nice project.

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Re:PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its bes... by lurkinggrue on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:57PM (#5877166)
They probably didn't install back doors and are just pulling in the data from the internet backbone.

Tapping off the fiber.

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Re:PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its bes... by meowface on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:13AM (#5884156)
Duckduckgo redirects all requests to HTTPS and uses only HTTPS; it is highly unlikely the NSA or anyone would be able to decrypt that traffic, unless of course they force DDG to divulge their SSL private key. Which I suppose is plausible.
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