Duck Duck Go a pirate facade.

There are several articles within the press recently concerning users flocking to DuckDuckGo within the wake of the recent National Security Agency snooping revelations. If you find yourself in this category, keep reading. If you utilize DuckDuckGo exclusively for the plethora of different blessings, like reducing pesky ad tracking, filter boxing, etc, then reading beyond this point is purely for your own amusement. DuckDuckGo can offer you a minimum of that level of “privacy", and that you should already know.

In orher words  DuckDuckGo is taking advantage of the presently furor over NSA spying with statements concerning privacy while not truly providing privacy protection from the varieties of spying the NSA is participating in (and not stating this clearly).

Standard Wiretaps
DuckDuckGo will simply be compelled either underneath the Communications help for enforcement Act (CALEA), customary court orders, or by secret orders from the Foreign Intelligence police work Court (FISA) to produce tap-on-demand.  I don’t suppose anyone will dispute that.  If you're specifically targeted in Associate in Nursing investigation, you'll be able to bank on the very fact that every one of your searches and their history “going forward” once the judicial writ are going to be collected on you and keep.


Google has a minimum of a transparency report description the amount of non-FISA requests it receives and currently a “ballpark” reportage of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests.  Users ought to demand constant of DuckDuckGo.

Deep Integration 

DuckDuckGo has created lots of fodder regarding their privacy, however like several alternative technology firms they need remained silent regarding their collaboration, if any, with enforcement and security agencies.

Why should not they? they're reaping the advantages of AN uninstructed people flocking to their service to avoid the NSA dragnet.  The privacy they provide is privacy from third-party advertisers and cross-site chase.


The MarCom departments of massive players like Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft et al. have gotten smart at crafting extraordinarily fastidiously worded denials through lies of omission.

DuckDuckGo says:
DuckDuckGo doesn't store any personal data, e.g. scientific discipline addresses or user agents
But what if DuckDuckGo provided a splitter-feed to the NSA?  DuckDuckGo will claim while not lying that they store no personal data, however that speaks nothing of a collaborating partner storing it.

Can they refuse to collaborate with the NSA if approached?  If one appearance at the recent reports regarding Yahoo! et al. the solution is “No, you cannot”.   Yahoo! apparently created joint efforts to resist, causing lawyers into battle, and ultimately (and silently) lost the fighting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court.  “Silently” as a result of their loss and also the ruling that handed  it down is additionally secret.


Assume, negative bank on, the actual fact that firms situated at intervals the u.  s. is and square measure being compelled to participate in programs like PRISM and square measure lawfully overpowered to refuse.

The United States government now recognizes League of Legends players as professional athletes and awards visas for them to come to the country to play.

Riot Games eSports manager Nick Allen told GameSpot in a new video interview (below) that the "groundbreaking" decision came about after much back-and-forth between the developer and the government.

"So the United States government recognizes League of Legends pro players as professional athletes and award visas to essentially work in the United States under that title," Allen said. "This is groundbreaking for eSports; now we can start looking at international players when they come over. It's a much easier process because they're actually recognized by the government. This is a huge thing."

"This was a lengthy process; we had a lot of people fighting for this. It wasn't something that happened overnight," Allen continued.

He further explained that Riot went back and forth with the government multiple times before enough evidence was provided to prove that the game is a legitimate sport.

Via Gamespot

Zimmerman Back In Court

(Reuters) - Volunteer neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman has lied repeatedly about the fatal shooting last year of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin and killed him "because he wanted to" not in self-defense, a Florida prosecutor said at Zimmerman's murder trial on Monday.

In a fiery opening statement, Assistant State Attorney John Guy said the evidence would show that Zimmerman had spun "a tangled web of lies" about the shooting in a gated community in the central Florida town of Sanford.

The killing triggered nationwide protests because Zimmerman was not immediately arrested and walked free for six weeks, after claiming he acted in accordance with Florida's self-defense laws when Martin attacked him.

Zimmerman's lawyer Don West, in his opening statement in Seminole County Court, repeated many of the claims that have already been heard from Zimmerman, his family and lawyer.

"There are no monsters here," West said, contesting Guy's description of his client as a would-be cop who was trained in martial arts and kick boxing and used "hate-filled" speech to describe an innocent young man.

Zimmerman, 29 and part Hispanic, was the neighborhood watch captain in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford at the time of the killing on February 26, 2012. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree murder and could face life imprisonment if convicted.

Martin, 17, was a student at a Miami-area high school and a guest of one of the homeowners in the Retreat at Twin Lakes.

He was walking back to the residence after buying snacks at a nearby convenience store when he was shot in the chest during a confrontation with Zimmerman.

Much of what happened during Martin's fatal encounter with Zimmerman is still a mystery. Neighbors who witnessed the scuffle and the fatal shot, albeit on a rainy night, are expected to testify during the trial.

"George Zimmerman did not shoot Trayvon Martin because he had too. He shot him for the worst of all reasons, because he wanted too," said Guy, the prosecutor, during a 33 minute-long opening statement.

As he spoke, Zimmerman, who is out on bail and appeared in court wearing a charcoal gray suit, showed no emotion as he look straight ahead and away from the prosecutor.

The prosecutor also told the jury, however, that there was no actual evidence to support the claim that Martin had attacked Zimmerman. No blood or DNA from Zimmerman was found on Martin's hands or elsewhere on his body or clothing, Guy said, despite Zimmerman's claims that Martin punched him to the ground and covered his bleeding, broken nose with his bare hands as he pounded his head into the ground.

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NSALeaks UPDATE. Snowden currently seeking asylum in Ecuador according to Moscow officials along with corresponding reports by Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry.  Sources comment that Wikileaks are helping aid Snowden financially. Snowden left Hong Kong knowing the Chinese would hand him over without hesitation. His existence is enough of a blunder to american political machine morale than anything the conservatives and liberals combined could have managed. Big government essentially caught red handed with their hands in the cookie jars and use counter-terrorism "success" as a scapegoat.