I'm playing with Wireshark right now, and I found that using duckduckgo on firefox, as a search engine, generates HTTPS requests using TLSv1.2 to IP addresses located in USA, Virginia, Ashburn: 107.21.1.61, 107.21.1.8
2014-03-24 21:12 GMT-03:00 Dale Visser <dale.vis...@live.com>: > I tend to be extra paranoid, and set my Firefox homepage to a DuckDuckGo > URL that specifies searches via HTTPS with the search query in the > encrypted request body. If there was a way to set the search box to take > advantage of this, too, I would love to know about it. > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ------------------------------ > From: fari...@arcor.de > Sent: 3/24/2014 5:43 PM > To: brendanperr...@gmail.com <walteror...@gmail.com>; > Israel<israeld...@gmail.com> > Cc: lubuntu user list <lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: Mozilla Firefox-Startpage > > Am 24.03.2014 18:32, schrieb brendanperr...@gmail.com: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Israel <israeld...@gmail.com > > <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com <israeld...@gmail.com>>> wrote: > > > > [ . . . ] > > > > +1 to duckduckgo! > > You don't necessarily need to contact ubufox people, can't Lubuntu > > bundle a different start page? > > I though that was one of the options when customizing a build of > Ubuntu. > > We could, actually build a page that contains those search engines > > (both) and uses the Lubuntu logo, right? > > > > -- > > Regards > > > > > > > > -- > > Lubuntu-users mailing list > > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com < > mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com <Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/__mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> > > That what was i thought too. :D > > But in any case, it does not hurt to have contacted the ubufox people as > well. ;-) > > I'm not sure: duckduckgo comes by default as a searchengine option in > firefox? Personally, i deleted yahoo,bing,amazon from that default list > and added: ixquick (https), metager (https), firefox help and leo (a > vocabulary). Mycroft as a source of hundreds of searchengines is useful. > > Also, i'm not sure if duckduckgo (when it comes with firefox by default) > is https or not. > > Personally, as quoted already before, i think a mini-introduction (under > a link button) on how to add searchengines especially from the point of > view of privacy/security would be smart. Together with mentioning https > everywhere (eff.org). I think once you have installed that, any search > engine would be automatically https, given it exists as such (no need of > special installs). > > Cheers. > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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