<story><title>NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sage_joch</author><text>In related news, DuckDuckGo has seen a huge spike in traffic (&lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;traffic.html&lt;/a&gt;). Even if the NSA has probably circumvented DDG&amp;#x27;s privacy features, it&amp;#x27;s still worth using them for &lt;i&gt;trying&lt;/i&gt; to preserve user privacy. And in my experience, DDG&amp;#x27;s search results have improved drastically, to the point that I very rarely have to resort to Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>I wonder what Gabriel Weinberg would do if the NSA told him to hand over his SSL keys so they could view all his traffic. Would he shut down like Lavabit did? Would be interesting to get a statement out of him about this.</text></comment>
<story><title>NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sage_joch</author><text>In related news, DuckDuckGo has seen a huge spike in traffic (&lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;traffic.html&lt;/a&gt;). Even if the NSA has probably circumvented DDG&amp;#x27;s privacy features, it&amp;#x27;s still worth using them for &lt;i&gt;trying&lt;/i&gt; to preserve user privacy. And in my experience, DDG&amp;#x27;s search results have improved drastically, to the point that I very rarely have to resort to Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucian1900</author><text>Much of DDG&amp;#x27;s privacy stems from not having any user data to store in the first place. While that can be circumvented to some extent, it&amp;#x27;s hard to do so without outwardly visible consequences.</text></comment>