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		api on July 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy? 3. It would be almost trivial for the U.S. government to snoop on DuckDuckGo's traffic at the switch or cloud provider level even without informing DuckDuckGo of this. I believe they host at EC2 East, which is in DC and a major U.S. government linked hosting provider (see Amazon FedRamp). The cloud is not private, period.

mtgx on July 14, 2013 [–]

Oh, I'm sure they can easily collect the traffic. I think any secure service needs to be made with that in mind now. But the question is if they can get the data unencrypted.

api on July 15, 2013 | [–]

Even if they're getting it encrypted, they can still learn a lot from correlations of addresses and times and such.

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