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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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