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Alright, let's do a group experiment. Choose one of the links below: http://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks http://www.google.com/search?q=p

Alright, let's do a group experiment. Choose one of the links below: http://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks http://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks (insecure) https://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks https://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks (secure) and report back if you get a visit from a squadron of men dressed in green wearing helmets and holding guns. If any reporters clicked on the https link, it's PRISM because the leak is from inside Google, otherwise it's XKeyscore. If we get results from both we are really fucked. Or were you too scared to search? I know I was...

markyc 13y ago
I don't even live in your wacky country and I'm scared to do that search :D
tjbiddle 13y ago
Clicked HTTPS and then immediately searched 'bombs' afterwards. Now we wait.
- nkuttler 13y ago
  Thanks for the inspiration!
ck2 13y ago
Any forum or service that allows you to post external urls for images, you just have to paste that as a image url and I guess screw everyone or pollute the database. On the enterprising side of things I guess you could sell a product with that name on Amazon and get a lot of traffic?
- bentcorner 13y ago
  > On the enterprising side of things I guess you could sell a product with that name on Amazon and get a lot of traffic? Now might be the time for Coleman to make a portable pressure cooker that you can take hiking with you. A "Wilderness Meal Device", if you will.
a3n 13y ago
I have considered completely leaving the internet. To live a modern life, especially in a technical field, makes that a ludicrous and unlikely choice. And I'm very unlikely to actually do it. But I've considered it, and I'm not a nut.
- foobarbazqux 13y ago
  Just don't go cold turkey, eliminate a piece at a time. You probably don't need a smartphone, for example.
  - a3n 13y ago
    I don't have a smartphone. :)
- irollboozers 13y ago
  You can leave the internet, or just move to a different internet.
mike-cardwell 13y ago
Don't forget to try https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks
MrKurtz 13y ago
There is no proof that the visit was due to her googling anything: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142238
- dasil003 13y ago
  No, but with the help of everyone here we might at least get a statistical correlation going.
AznHisoka 13y ago
What does Google or Bing get visited because they crawled those urls?
fotoblur 13y ago
Sorry, didn't see this before I posted but this was exactly my though, yet done on a much larger scale with the assistance of bots.
fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
https, now I've just got to remember not to otherwise search for backpacks and pressure cookers!
crististm 13y ago
I've got some links about Barbara Streisand.
yk 13y ago
Clicked both and compared the search results, they are the same except that there is a advertisement for backpacks from amazon at the top of the https version. ( I am outside of the US, so probably rather UAVs than goons... )
evan_ 13y ago
or better yet, make shortened versions of those URLs with bit.ly and post them on twitter with enticing body text.
cynwoody 13y ago
I dare you to fetch this link (see page 39 — "So you may use iron pipes, pressure cookers, fire extinguishers, or empty propane canisters. The point is that the inflammable substance needs to be contained in a strong container that would allow the pressure to build up and thus cause a damaging explosion."): http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/aqap-inspire-magazine-volume-1-uncorrupted.pdf http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/aqap-inspire-magaz... That was authored by the AQ Chef, the late Anwar al-Awlaki, who was pressure-cooked by a Hellfire missile in 2011. His article supposedly guided the efforts of the Boston Marathon bombers.
pcl 13y ago
I'm looking forward to the black helicopters doing a raid on the building that contains the VPN concentrators at my company.

markyc 13y ago

I don't even live in your wacky country and I'm scared to do that search :D

tjbiddle 13y ago

Clicked HTTPS and then immediately searched 'bombs' afterwards. Now we wait.

nkuttler 13y ago
Thanks for the inspiration!

ck2 13y ago

Any forum or service that allows you to post external urls for images, you just have to paste that as a image url and I guess screw everyone or pollute the database. On the enterprising side of things I guess you could sell a product with that name on Amazon and get a lot of traffic?

bentcorner 13y ago
> On the enterprising side of things I guess you could sell a product with that name on Amazon and get a lot of traffic? Now might be the time for Coleman to make a portable pressure cooker that you can take hiking with you. A "Wilderness Meal Device", if you will.

a3n 13y ago

I have considered completely leaving the internet. To live a modern life, especially in a technical field, makes that a ludicrous and unlikely choice. And I'm very unlikely to actually do it. But I've considered it, and I'm not a nut.

foobarbazqux 13y ago
Just don't go cold turkey, eliminate a piece at a time. You probably don't need a smartphone, for example.
- a3n 13y ago
  I don't have a smartphone. :)
irollboozers 13y ago
You can leave the internet, or just move to a different internet.

mike-cardwell 13y ago

Don't forget to try https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks

MrKurtz 13y ago

There is no proof that the visit was due to her googling anything: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142238

dasil003 13y ago
No, but with the help of everyone here we might at least get a statistical correlation going.

AznHisoka 13y ago

What does Google or Bing get visited because they crawled those urls?

fotoblur 13y ago

Sorry, didn't see this before I posted but this was exactly my though, yet done on a much larger scale with the assistance of bots.

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago

https, now I've just got to remember not to otherwise search for backpacks and pressure cookers!

crististm 13y ago

I've got some links about Barbara Streisand.

yk 13y ago

Clicked both and compared the search results, they are the same except that there is a advertisement for backpacks from amazon at the top of the https version. ( I am outside of the US, so probably rather UAVs than goons... )

evan_ 13y ago

or better yet, make shortened versions of those URLs with bit.ly and post them on twitter with enticing body text.

cynwoody 13y ago

I dare you to fetch this link (see page 39 — "So you may use iron pipes, pressure cookers, fire extinguishers, or empty propane canisters. The point is that the inflammable substance needs to be contained in a strong container that would allow the pressure to build up and thus cause a damaging explosion."): http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/aqap-inspire-magazine-volume-1-uncorrupted.pdf http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/aqap-inspire-magaz... That was authored by the AQ Chef, the late Anwar al-Awlaki, who was pressure-cooked by a Hellfire missile in 2011. His article supposedly guided the efforts of the Boston Marathon bombers.

pcl 13y ago

I'm looking forward to the black helicopters doing a raid on the building that contains the VPN concentrators at my company.