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		wnevets on June 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo ... if the NSA is intercepting the communications, why would switching sites matter?

marshray on June 13, 2013 [–]

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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