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NSA Secretly Continues Merkel Surveillance

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-directly-spying-on-you dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

"German language magazine 'Bild am Sonntag' reports that, in response to Obama's recent order to stop spying on Angela Merkel and other heads of 'friendly' states, the NSA has instead ramped up spying on everybody Merkel communicates with. Cory Doctorow points out that this action demonstrates that the NSA is out of control and deliberately disobeying a presidential order with a level of duplicity worthy of a four year-old."

 
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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:58AM (#6472)

    DuckDuckGo uses Bing

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  • (Score: 3) by everdred on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:55PM

    by everdred (110) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:55PM (#6735) Journal

    Why was this modded Troll? Duckduckgo uses other search engines as its backend, and I believe it may have used Bing at one point. Currently it uses Yandex.

    • (Score: 1) by HiThere on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:34AM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:34AM (#7065) Journal

      I thought it used a mix of search engines...or possibly several at the same time.

      Whatever, not logging your IP address is good, but since your communications to are probably monitored on the way to it, it probably doesn't matter. Someone else logged it.

      (Yes, I know you mentioned ways to obscure that trail. I doubt that they will be successful if you are a person of interest. If you aren't, they probably aren't needed...though that may be foolish optimism.)

      --
      Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.

      • (Score: 2) by everdred on Wednesday February 26 2014, @08:13AM

        by everdred (110) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @08:13AM (#7194) Journal

        It looks like you're right [duck.co]. But interestingly, I found that page through a link that said read "In partnership with Yandex," which seems to appear alongside the results of all queries I try now.