Category Archives: google

pandaflux’s list o’ recommended browser plugins

Firefox googlesharing: encrypts your google traffic and routes it through a proxy where it is combined with many other people. https-everywhere: Automatically enables a secure connection for websites that supports it. better privacy: Among other things, Better Privacy will delete “flash … Continue reading

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GoogleSharing: a firefox addon

While reading the latest issue of Information Security Magazine I came across an article of a tool Moxie Marlinspike released at Blackhat this past summer, Googlesharing.  Marlinspike has introduced several tools that help people concerned about privacy avoid giving up … Continue reading

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DNS Performance & Security…

I’ve gotten tired of Road Runner’s DNS redirection/hijacking service which I opt out of yet it keeps coming back.  I decided to do some DNS benchmarking, comparing my assigned ISP name servers against publicly provided DNS such as Google.   The … Continue reading

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Google beta’s SSL for web searches

According to this H article, Google is beginning to beta a new feature of providing SSL for their standard web search service. As one commenter noted, Google is still collecting the same information from your searches but this will limit … Continue reading

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Google & Privacy

Bruce Schneier recently posted an article about the erosion of privacy.  Specifically how the social networking sites are accelerating this “privacy decay.”  Along with attacked social networking sites he through in Google.  I just came across an interesting Forbes article … Continue reading

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Try something new…. AskEraser….

I’ve been looking around for a new search engine besides Google.  I’m worried about giving them all the business and their privacy policy scares me.  They’re collecting more and more of our information and no one seems to notice.  (Take … Continue reading

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Google Hacking

Google hacking has been around for a while but unfortunately it is still very relevant.  Basically because the Google crawler is so powerful you can use this to your advantage to discover sensitive data.  You can find password files as … Continue reading

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Google Wave

At the recent Google I/O conference in San Francisco the next big Google project was announced, Google Wave.  Imagine being able to instant message and collaborate with multiple people in real time.  Now chat rooms have been around for a … Continue reading

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