An important point that should be checked would certainly be if and when the plugin on its own tries to contact servers in the US, be they servers of Google or of the other parties involved.
If it doesn't, it deserves the attention of a more thorrough check.
I really like the idea of this, but somehow have a longing for the world we lived in one year ago, when news of such a project would not have been "tainted" by attaching the name of Google to it.
Sigh.
Re:Google announces uProxy
by lallysingh on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @12:09PM
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If you don't trust Google, run it in Firefox.
Actually...
if you don't trust Google...
you probably shouldn't run it.
As it is pretty difficult to run reliable audits these days... I would not run it. You open yourself up to everything from the American Homeland Security people to Child Pornographers.
It's just not worth it.
An other point in the video (at around 0:50) mentions that you can select your route through trusted friends. If that's true it means that you can decide where your traffic transits.
Now obviously if you use the binary chrome builds made by Google they might put a backdoor in there but that's always true.
I don't think it's fair to dismiss this because it comes from Google, if it's open source and an open standard everybody will be free to audit it and decide for themselves.
If you don't want to use any crypto-product which might be even remotely related to the NSA then I have bad news for you...