[Bradford] Search engine: StartPage

[Alice Kaerast]

On the plus side they're hosting in Amsterdam, with routing (for me) going
via Telehouse London directly to Leaseweb in Haarlem NL.  On the minus side
they appear to have some relationship with Confluence Networks, who appear
to be US-based but hide behind an Australian privacy protection service.

The NSA have had access to not just the companies explicitly named in the
Prism leaks, but core routers around the world.  We know that this includes
China, I haven't been following closely enough recently to know if it
includes Europe.  Snowden claims that good security still can't be broken
by the NSA, but we don't know if that includes SSL.  Startpage.com use SSL,
but only 128-bit encryption, the certificate is only 2048 bit and it's not
extended validation - plus it's issued by Go Daddy, a US company.

And what's this,
https://startpage.com/do/adviewtrack.pl?a=5275&g=914&l=english_uk&anticache=290399&/filename.gif?
 A transparent 1x1 gif called adviewtrack.pl?  Multiple searches use the
same a and g value, whilst the same search from a different browser
increments a by one and g by 6.  The anticache value will be to stop
proxies caching the file, thus ensuring they get logs every time a search
is performed.

Panopticlick https://panopticlick.eff.org suggests that my browser
fingerprint is unique among the 3,099,018 tested so far.  How much of that
is stored against the adviewtrack logs?

Regards
Alice





On 5 July 2013 21:44, Brian A <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:

> Supposedly a  private Google search. So, the advantage of a Google search
> with the privacy of DuckDuckGo.
>
> https://startpage.com/
>
> Can be added to the Firefox drop-down search box.
>
>
> Brian
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