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I did. I also went to the uProxy site which mentions it was seeded by Google Ideas. Also, >> One of the ways uProxy connects you through your friends, is by co
by r0h1n 13y ago
I did. I also went to the uProxy site which mentions it was seeded by Google Ideas. Also,
>> One of the ways uProxy connects you through your friends, is by connecting to existing chat networks, such as Facebook or Google Hangouts. uProxy can use a chat network to discover new friends and setup peer-to-peer proxying from your friends. If a user does so, then the chat network can see that the user has uProxy installed. A user's chat contacts may also see this.
So Google funded uProxy; it will be able to see who your VPN "host" is via Google Hangouts; and lastly it controls one of the two browsers on which this plugin runs, Chrome.
That's too much Google for me, personally.
- lallysingh 13y ago.. So don't use it on hangouts and run it on Firefox. Scan the source for any "call home code."
- r0h1n 13y agoThis isn't about me. I already use a different VPN. I don't use Hangouts or Google+. Those rare Google services I do use, I use sparingly. My point was the average Internet Joe or Jane needs to look beyond "free" services and be willing to spend some money buying better alternatives. One of the reasons we're all so compromised on the Internet today is our collective blindness towards the hidden "costs" of free services.
- lallysingh 13y agoI agree with your point on the costs of free services. I'm happy to pay myself. In some parts of the world, it's very tough to transfer money to a circumvention or anonymizing service without getting in trouble. But if a user is both unable to assess the security of the system them self, and unwilling to trust another's analysis, the funding model is irrelevant. Source is the gold standard, IMHO, even if that's still not terribly helpful.