[liberationtech] Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries | TIME.com

[Kelly John Rose]

That's the fun part. They won't need to issue pen requests. Google already
gave them the root keys or put a backdoor into the software. It's win-win
for the US for every sucker who uses it. They can help people in regimes
they don't like and then use it's popularity to hunt down people who use it
for even more large scale data mining.

Honestly, if you are security or privacy conscious, I wouldn't trust
google, the epitome of American business, with my privacy, especially not
with a random VPN system they just happened to develop.

On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, Alfie John wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013, at 04:25 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> > UProxy allows users in the U.S. to give their trusted friends in
> > Iran—people they might already be emailing or chatting with—access to
> > the open U.S. Internet.
>
> How long until the feds start issuing pen registers to users?
>
> >  “The user in Iran can get unfiltered access to
> > the Internet that’s completely uncensored and will look just like it
> > does in the U.S.,” says Cohen. “It’s completely encrypted and there’s
> > no way for the government to detect what’s happening because it just
> > looks like voice traffic or chat traffic. We wanted to build a proxy
> > service that builds on top of trusted relationships that already
> > exist.”
>
> The irony is that "the government" in the above statement can go either
> way. It will be a sad day when ordinary U.S citizens get their friends
> in Iran and China to use it so that their activity doesn't become
> another entry in a Utah data centre.
>
> Alfie
>
> --
>   Alfie John
>   alfiej at fastmail.fm <javascript:;>
>
>

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