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Few other things to secure your computer.

By default Windows have two things enabled that compromise the security on the computer. Only in special cases you should leave this enabled. Otherwise it is highly recommended to disable them.

1. Remote Assistance connection to this computer.

In Windows 7 :

Right click my computer - properties - advanced system settings - remote - untick "remote assistance to this computer"

in Windows Vista:

* Click Start

* Click Control Panel

* Click System and Maintenance

* Click System

* On the left side of the Window under the Tasks category. Click Remote settings

* If prompted by the User Account Control. Click Continue

* De-select Allow remote connections from this computer

* Click OK

In Windows XP :

how-to-disable-remote-assistance-and-remote-desktop-in-windows-xp/


Disable remote registry:

Do not use "msconfig" to disable services, type "services.msc" in the Run box instead!

find "Remote Registry" stop and disabled.

Same way for all windows versions.

close the window and restart computer.

As said before...........it is only in certain cases you need these to run. As if you are on a network where other or yourself have to get access to that computer remotely. 95% of all users have no use of having these enabled. It rather is just an open way for hackers and virus and other nasty stuff to get easy access to your system.
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About blocking from outcoming traffic, then there are many different tools to use.

I used to use PeerGuardian when I was on P2P servers and downloaded stuff and such........some years ago........
But PeerGuardian is a kind of false security as it only blocks those IP addresses that you have put into the program.

Like the hosts file.........the hosts file only blocks what you have told it to block....
Peerguardian is suitable when you are sharing files via P2P........not really in any other situations.

I use hosts file..........firewall..........anti spyware and antivirus.........and then I have tweaked my computer with few things like the one described in last post.

My anti - virus and anti - spyware also can block for certain IP's and URL's from entering my computer.
As I have been visiting a site where something is trying to enter my computer and I immidiatly get an alert........last time from 89.248.160.196 which is :

Title: Santrex Internet Services
Keywords: none
Description: none
IP:
89.248.160.196
server location:
Amsterdam in Netherlands
ISP:
Ecatel LTD


Whenever a program or something are trying to enter then I get an alert and can block, permanently block or allow.

That is worth something........and very effective as the things are as I go along with what ever I do........

The programs I use are PC-Tools with anti-virus..........I have choosen to pay for a program........first time in many years...........
I have used unpaid programs before and never really fully worked.

I sometimes take one of the free programs and make a check and nothing is found.
Only program that are able to find additional spyware are "Spybot-search and destroy, which find 2 other spyware which are not really serious........

Also I am using windows 7 as it is somewhat more secure than windows XP and of earlier versions of windows.
Vista is pretty ok also........just something else terrible wrong there........but that's another issue.

So PeerGuardian............well.........in a sense ok.........but in another sense useless if you have set up your computer nicely, have good anti virus and anti spyware..........a good firewall.........even the windows build in firewall is kind of ok.......
the hosts file provide you with good blocks for most ads, pop-ups, and bad sites.......if you keep it updated..........and are adding your sites to it as you go along.

In the hosts file you can add the things in the top........or in a place for itself, so it is easy to copy and paste to the new updated hsts fiile when it comes out, as the hosts file are updated now and then......and can be downloaded from the links provided in earlier post.

I can only recommend Spyware Doctor with anti virus from PC-Tools :

http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor-a ... /purchase/

It cost 40 Dollar............and as you all know........dollar is nothing worth anymore.... :D
You can use the same key on three computers...........which is just perfect for me as I do have three computers.........

If you have a GF/BF and each have a laptop, and you have a stationary.........then just perfect.............
Subscription including all new versions, unlimited smart updates and customer support for 1 year.

and no....I get no % from there.........ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Well.......just my five cents on the PeerGuardian Issue......
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Unread post by hoi.polloi »

Thanks for your help. This is really good information for people who are curious in exploring their options on the computer front.

Do you have any special knowledge of Linux, Unix, Macintosh ...?

I have heard of people using Linux as a server for stability and for the ability to monitor every gateway, but it sounds like Windows 7 can do the same thing. Is that so?
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hoi.polloi @ Mar 13 2010, 10:42 AM wrote: Do you have any special knowledge of Linux, Unix, Macintosh ...?

I have heard of people using Linux as a server for stability and for the ability to monitor every gateway, but it sounds like Windows 7 can do the same thing. Is that so?
No Sorry, have no idea about MAC, or Linux, Unix.

I do know that server vice the Linux is more stable and secure than Windows. Only few are left who claim the opposite.
To monitor a server, traffic and so on doesn't depend wether you use one system or the other. It is a seperate software that does that.

I only have a little knowledge on homecomputers/laptops that are running windows 95, 98, ME, Vista and 7.
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Unread post by hoi.polloi »

Thanks.

I assume the "intelligence" community is using the Sun/Oracle octopus, partially because it specializes in compartmentalization, keeping people in obedience loops, sealing off "information breaches" etc. However, you never know which of the 9/11 actors are tapping away at a netbook, notebook, laptop or desktop with conventional software that anyone might have like Windows or Mac or public library computer. Maybe someone who assumes Linux is stable but they don't want to get into the programming so they put in Ubuntu or Debian or something free. Sometimes I get the feeling the actors are not that sharp with the constant fake YouTube accounts, etc.

Sometimes I feel as if they lease their simulacrum to the DoD/MoD frameworks but they are mostly incompetent protected actors getting the people's tax money off of a really shitty job that something PeerGuardian2 or a firewall could encounter.

However, other times, it feels as if when they need help, they have a way of asking for it. I wonder sometimes how much we catch that we don't realize we catch ... Something that we might be able to search for in each of our personal backlogs of PeerGuardian2 or firewall programs.

Something that might be slightly damning that it's too late for them to undo. :unsure:

Just wondering, of course.
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You can be sure that you are being monitored.

Once I wrote all the main stream media, CNN, FOX, ABC, CNBC and what ever they are called. It is around 5 years ago.
I wrote them all a long email asking why they showed tv-fakery and came with false claims, and lied to the public. Asked how journalists could sleep good at night when so obvious telling lies to millions of people and so on.

What happened was that shortly after I got a request on my MSN from a person to be added.

Slowly this person wanted my details.........so it ended with an invitation to a meeting in Africa. A claimed meeting for people discussing the world situation and the 911 attack.

I would get a free ticket to the place..........also I was send an URL to a website about the meeting.........and it was so obvious that the website was made only for that.........so damn fake and sloppy and bad made. Lot of text saying nothing and so on and so on.

I just had to send my passport details and I would get a ticket send....

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

So without exposing my MSN address, within 2 days after I had send the mails to the main stream media I got contacted on the MSN........

That doesn't mean they could get into the computer..........I was pretty secure on the computer used...........they could see where it came from, but not enter.......could see many attempts in the log file.........

The thing is with logs and so on..........is that it is easy to use a zombie computer from where you send the stuff or via some network from where it is more or less impossible to trace back.

So all in all it is not really worth using time on tracing or trying to find things that way.
Better to just secure your computer well, keep working on exposing 911 and the other issues and keep spreading the words.

All emails and stuff are being traced and tracked, no matter what you really do. Some encryption can be used, but I never really looked into that.

Personally I am not afraid standing up and saying my meaning. Others should be more careful as they deal with stuff that should be kept somewhat secret.....at least for a while.

To expose some of the "actors" this way takes a really nerd.......someone who are deep into all this stuff. It is not for us "normal" people......... :D :D :D
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If you think your IP is blocked on a certain site, there are several ways to check that:

First check your IP:
http://www.whatismyip.com/
or
http://www.cmyip.com/

That is your external IP address. Your external IP is the IP getting logged when you are sending emails, visit websites etc.

What ever you are using, you can always check that way to see what external IP is being used.
Please note that it only show you the first External IP.

From here you can access an site somewhat anonymously.

http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html

That way you can give it a try and see of you are able to log into a site that you couldn't log into before.

When using a open proxy, then most loggers are able to see both the IP the proxy have and what IP that the one using the proxy have.
That's why I mentioned that http://www.whatismyip.com/ only shows the first external IP.

If using a proxy you will need to use a anonymous proxy in able to hide your external IP.

Problem with good anonymous proxy is that it is very hard to find good free ones that are up running for longer time and have speed.
It used to be no problem finding as now a days it is really not that easy.

You can pay for a proxy......but I would say it is a big waste of money even it is not that much: Only 9.95 a month or 24.95 a quarter at one place I was looking.

There are other ways to hide your IP.

One way is to use the Tor Network.
http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en

Here is a program that uses the Tor Network:
http://www.hide-my-ip-address.com/hideip/


Other way is to for example some of these programs:

http://www.hide-my-ip.com/
http://www.hide-my-ip.com/howitworks.shtml

http://www.hide-ip-soft.com/ - shareware

Your IP Address Is: 66.220.3.55
Possible Proxy Detected: 1.1 httprelay.unknown:8662 (squid/2.5.STABLE12-NT)

That's what I get when using one of the programs. This here is from Auto Hide ip.....3 days trial version.........also was unable to log in here if using it....and getting slow and not really worth it.

Have been surfing around for a freeware version. But none to find, and I think it is because the hide IP uses a server somewhere as a gateway to the net........which is little trouble as by law some of those have to log everything.

So only free way to be anymous on the net is to find the free anonymously proxy and check if they really are anonymous.....which is not always the case......and spending a lot of time by finding a new and working one and checking if all is working and so on.....SUX...!!!!

Or by using the Tor Network

or connecting via another website like the http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html which are not the only one.....

That's my conclusion after doing a little research on that.

I not much into this.........have used Tor Network and proxies few years ago....

But I will get back if I find out something more in my search.
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I tried out Peer Guardian, but couldn't get it to work properly on Win7. Tried all sorts of things, but after the initial run, couldn't get the UI to show up after that.

Did some searching and ran across PeerBlock. It's essentially the exact same program as Peer Guardian, except that it actually works. Something about widows and forcing driver signing, in Vista and Win7 anyway.

So if you were having trouble getting Peer Guardian to work, give PeerBlock a try. I did and it works great.
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You guys still using Windows? Try Linux its the best experience ever!
No virusses and spyware, no irritating updates, no bluescreens.
Lol and I think Microsoft must never be trusted they work with FBI and CIA!!
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Linux 4 Mar 22 2010, 02:53 PM wrote: You guys still using Windows? Try Linux its the best experience ever!
No virusses and spyware, no irritating updates, no bluescreens.
Lol and I think Microsoft must never be trusted they work with FBI and CIA!!
open Suse 11 and latest Puppy here...but I do drift off into windoze occasionally too, but kept well secure.

Puppy is worth while considering if you dont want to make the Linux leap entirely, it runs LIVE from an ISO.

http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?fi ... elease.htm

Any questions about it, gimme a PM!
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brianv 4 Mar 22 2010, 04:41 PM wrote:
Linux 4 Mar 22 2010, 02:53 PM wrote: You guys still using Windows? Try Linux its the best experience ever!
No virusses and spyware, no irritating updates, no bluescreens.
Lol and I think Microsoft must never be trusted they work with FBI and CIA!!
open Suse 11 and latest Puppy here...but I do drift off into windoze occasionally too, but kept well secure.

Puppy is worth while considering if you dont want to make the Linux leap entirely, it runs LIVE from an ISO.

http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?fi ... elease.htm

Any questions about it, gimme a PM!
I have been using Ubuntu on my main pc. Recently I tried the 10.4 alpha, it has a redesigned look the brown has changed to mac os kinde style.
It shall be released on 29 april u guys should give it a try, itś mind blowing.
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Scroogle may be in trouble.

We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google. It depends on whether Google is willing to restore the simple interface that we've been scraping since Scroogle started five years ago. Actually, we've been using that interface for scraping since Google-Watch.org began in 2002.

This interface (here's a sample from years ago) was remarkably stable all that time. During those eight years there were only about five changes that required some programming adjustments. Also, this interface was available at every Google data center in exactly the same form, which allowed us to use 700 IP addresses for Google.

That interface was at http://www.google.com/ie but on May 10, 2010 they took it down and inserted a redirect to /toolbar/ie8/sidebar.html. It used to have a search box, and the results it showed were generic during that entire time. It didn't show the snippets unless you moused-over the links it produced (they were there for our program, so that was okay), and it has never had any ads. Our impression was that these results were from Google's basic algorithms, and that extra features and ads were added on top of these generic results. Three years ago Google launched "Universal Search," which meant that they added results from other Google services on their pages. But this simple interface we were using was not affected at all.

Now that interface is gone. It is not possible to continue Scroogle unless we have a simple interface that is stable. Google's main consumer-oriented interface that they want everyone to use is too complex, and changes too frequently, to make our scraping operation possible.

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi
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Hi hoi.polloi, Simon & All;
I am very pleased to see Scroogle is back.
Scroogle went down last weekend and that was quite troubling as I have used it for years with SSL and a custom searchplugin with Firefox. I didn't know it was back up as I didn't check again until just now before beginning to compose this post. I'm glad it is back and I hope it stays working. It has become quite popular now.

When it went down it seemed unlikely it would be back anytime soon although I wondered why Daniel couldn't try a different approach, as it now appears he did. He had also indicated the change took out the 700 IPs with was using so it seemed terminal.

Anyway I went looking for alternatives and I thought I would post what I came up with so here are the 3 things I adopted.

After that, posted below there is the method I used to update Firefox from 3.0.5 to 3.6.3 (while retaining an already configured profile) to use GoogleSharing, info and sources for a decent rules based firewall (kpf 2.1.5 free), advanced rules config info, plus (Posadis 0.60.6) a good multi-platform DNS server (with caching) and its PDF manual, then how I saved en masse the 125 new threads posted since my last visit, and some thoughts. And cookies. (recipe off topic) :)

SEARCH TOOLS WITH SSL
1. GoogleSharing :: A Special Kind Of Proxy
http://www.googlesharing.net/
GoogleSharing, Proxy, SSL=Yes

2. ixquick - Search Engine
https://ixquick.com/
ixquick .de based Search Engine - no records - No IP log - SSL=Yes, prefs via cookie or query string, Firefox mycroft plugin

ixquick Firefox searchplugin - - Mycroft Project (mozdev.org)
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engine ... pcache=yes

And of course Scroogle now that it is back.

3. Scroogle.org - Google Scraper with SSL, Mycroft Firefox searchplugin (get an SSL one!)
https://ssl.scroogle.org/

Scroogle Firefox searchplugin - Mycroft Project (mozdev.org)
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engine ... pcache=yes

PRIVACY CONSCIOUS SEARCH TOOLS WITHOUT SSL
1. Clusty - metasearch engine
http://www.clusty.com/
No IP log, SSL=No, prefs via cookie, To add the mycroft searchplugin I had to go to the site and use the Search Plugin droplist in the search bar. I'm not sure why but just placing it in my profile or application searchplugins folder did not work the way it always has for other searchplugins. Use the above suggestion or its Mycroft page.

Clusty Firefox searchplugin - - Mycroft Project (mozdev.org)
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engine ... pcache=yes

UPDATING FIREFOX TO 3.6.3 TO USE GOOGLESHARING
I ended up updating Firefox to 3.6.3 and was shocked to find updates for every single plugin of importance to me (quite a list!) and even things not working in my last optimization of Firefox 3 came to life and the result is quite amazing and fast. So far only one crash.

Using Firefox Updater to go from 3.0.5 to 3.6 Not Possible
To use GoogleSharing I had to switch to my Firefox 3 install (which I loathe using despite my many enhancements) and update it to 3.6 (3.6.3). I cloned my 3.0.5 isolated profile, renamed the first part, deleted Mozilla's profiles.ini (I always start a ver. of Firefox I am using with the -profile cmd line option), and then ran the installer over top. The most I could get the updater to see from 3.0.5 was the last update for the 3.0 series:

Mozilla Firefox - Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox
"(Firefox 3) ...Reached its end of life on March 30, 2010 with the release of Firefox 3.0.19"

Install Firefox 3.6.3 Clean and run with modified renamed copy of Previous 3.0.5 Profile
So I gave up on updating it, and was unable to stop the update in progress once it started. I deleted the contents of the Firefox3 updates folder, and also had to rename a couple of update related files to stop it restarting that update.

I put 3.6.3 over the older inst and it worked. Only 1 addon was enabled and working (GoogleSharing) but they were all still there and I braced myself and started checking for updates. I was amazed that almost all had updates and all the important ones that didn't worked by overriding compatibility using the Nightly Tester Tools updated addon. I was able to switch to the Compact theme after updating it. I continued tweaking and then backed up the profile and Firefox folder trees.

TESTING GOOGLESHARING
For those outside of the US, the basic test given at the author's site is to type http://www.google.com into the location bar and note that you are not redirected to the localized address for your country, such as google.ca for example. Another test is to be logged in to some Google service (no thanks!) without using it then switch it on and note that it no longer sees you as logged in.

Finding more evidence GoogleSharing works as claimed:

psych0tik releases GoogleSharing proxy ? psych0tik.blog
http://blog.psych0tik.net/?p=106
GoogleSharing works according to tcpdump analysis by psych0tik.
psych0tik offers GoogleSharing proxy access with SSL.

Googlesharing add-on for Firefox disables proxy protection
http://thementalmilitia.com/forums/inde ... ic=25451.0
Poster claims Googlesharing disables Firefox's regular Proxy Usage without any indication however, what I found when I tested for that was that setting Firefox to use a Proxy works but GoogleSharing does not and does not show the standard Firefox Proxy Server not responding message, so that's not as bad and in my case I no longer use general proxies anyway.

DNS SERVER (caching)
Platforms:
Windows 9x/NT/XP - Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and OpenBSD

Posadis 0.60.6 (free) - Posadis.org :: Release:041225
http://posadis.sourceforge.net/release/041225

Software Bundle - Download link - 1.8 MB (Posadis, Poslib, the Master File Editor and the DNS Query Tool)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/posa ... 0.60.6.exe
This was difficult to find but not too hard to get working and it works great. I can have 4 of my 5 machines on a LAN all using Posadis running on XP for DNS and the cache makes requests instantaneous.

I got the program from sourceforge and the manual from the link below.
There may be some broken links at the sourceforge site (docs link used to be broken) but the dl link works.

Alternate Source for Application & PDF Manual
Application Bundle and manual available via ftp

Index of /mailserver/cd/DNS Server
http://www.thaifox.net/mailserver/cd/DNS%20Server/

Posadis Bundle
http://www.thaifox.net/mailserver/cd/DN ... 0.60.6.exe

Posadis Manual - PDF
http://www.thaifox.net/mailserver/cd/DN ... 0.60.6.pdf

FREE RULE BASED WINDOWS FIREWALL & ADVANCED RULES
kpf 2.1.5 (free) (kerio personal firewall)

kerio personal firewall info at Last Freeware Version site
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html

Download link (2018 KB)
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware ... opf215.zip
An excellent free rule based firewall. Sunbelt is the latest commercial version and I plan to buy it at some point. I have not tried the 30 day trial yet.

Sunbelt Personal Firewall
http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Home-Hom ... -Firewall/

Advanced Rules to Replace kpf Defaults:

BZ Kerio 2x Default Replacement Update - dslreports.com
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8023708

MASS SAVING OF REALITY FORUM'S THREADS
There is no View All function for this forum and while most threads are 90 posts or less it gets too tedious saving manually.

I hadn't visited here since last November due to being immersed in something else so I just saved the 127 pages from my: New posts since last visit Index.

I still haven't found a super easy to use means of saving a large number of arbitrarily occurring web pages all at once, WITH IMAGES etc. I can save whole sites in many ways but forums are problematic with such tools. Things like DTA (DownThemAll) are useful but they do not save entire pages, only single items such as images, zips, PDFs, html only pages etc.

The method I just used was, I shrunk the text size on the page (Ctrl -) so I could see all the links on each index page. Then I found and used a Firefox Addon called MultiLinks and block selected the main links which copied only the links to the clipboard. I pasted them into a text file, imported the links into Teleport Ultra via that text file and set the project properties to download to a depth of 0 links away from each url (to merely save pages with all items on the page). 125 of 127 pages got saved completely.

A few threads were more than one page (even when logged in with posts per page set to the max. of 90) so I got those manually.

If anyone reading this knows of a good program for saving html pages plus its images that can also save from a huge list of urls, please let me know.

JEFF?
Looking through these threads is saddening and maddening.
What a mess.

Jeff = agent? Oh, just great. This is the first I've heard that.
I wondered about Jeff and Ghenghis that time when PumpItOut had their link to SC wrong and when I reported it at the 9/11 Truth Forum they did nothing and the reply from Ghenghis was really too much. I also asked why there was no simple place to dl all the phone calls and got no response. As a result I probably never heard more than maybe 4 and I have no idea how many there were. It is hard to accept though but I see lots of good analysis here.

It seems inconceivable that all this will ever be exposed and sorted out.
But it will.

While Teleport was saving the 125 pages I made Organic Oat flake, Sunflower cookies with cinnamon, vanilla and Chocolate on top.
May the Sun Be With You!
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Oh noez! :(

July 1, 2010: Here we go again...

We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google. It depends on whether Google is willing to restore the simple interface that we've been scraping since Scroogle started five years ago. Actually, we've been using that interface for scraping since Google-Watch.org began in 2002.

This interface (here's a sample from years ago) was remarkably stable all that time. During those eight years there were only about five changes that required some programming adjustments. Also, this interface was available at every Google data center in exactly the same form, which allowed us to use 700 IP addresses for Google.

That interface was at http://www.google.com/ie but on May 10, 2010 they took it down and inserted a redirect to /toolbar/ie8/sidebar.html. It used to have a search box, and the results it showed were generic during that entire time. It didn't show the snippets unless you moused-over the links it produced (they were there for our program, so that was okay), and it has never had any ads. Our impression was that these results were from Google's basic algorithms, and that extra features and ads were added on top of these generic results. Three years ago Google launched "Universal Search," which meant that they added results from other Google services on their pages. But this simple interface we were using was not affected at all.

It is not possible to continue Scroogle unless we have a simple interface that is stable. Google's main consumer-oriented interface that they want everyone to use is too complex, too bloated, and changes too frequently, to make our scraping operation possible.

After a lot of suggestions from Scroogle users, and a fair amount of publicity, we found a fix and Scroogle was back in 24 hours. This fix was to insert an extra parameter, &output=ie, into the search terms that were relayed to Google. The extra parameter recovered the same interface that we thought was gone forever.

Now it seems like it actually might be gone forever. Late on June 30, 2010, the results produced while using this parameter began to shift to the usual busy Google interface with ads and a left-margin sidebar. Scroogle users saw a Scroogle page that said, "Google returned no results for this search," when in fact Google returned results but our scraper was unable to deal with them. Over the next few days we will attempt to contact Google and determine whether the old interface is gone as a matter of policy at Google, or if they simply have it hidden somewhere and will tell us where it is so that we can continue to use it.

Thank you for your support during these past five years. Check back in a week or so; if we don't hear from Google by next week, I think we can all assume that Google would rather have no Scroogle, and no privacy for searchers.

-- Daniel Brandt, Public Information Research, scroogle AT lavabit.com

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi
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Linux 4 Mar 22 2010, 02:53 PM wrote: You guys still using Windows? Try Linux its the best experience ever!
No virusses and spyware, no irritating updates, no bluescreens.
Lol and I think Microsoft must never be trusted they work with FBI and CIA!!
I concur. My 8 year old nephew just configured a dual boot (Ubuntu / Winblows 7) without anything but verbal instructions from me. It's not complex, just takes some attention. It's also not a golden ticket, but it certainly minimizes risks on a number of layers. And if you want to get dirty with it, check out Tor and onion routing for deeper anonymity.
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