While it seems the pinnacle of tautology to say once again that open source standards must Hold The Center for web development; here I am, repeating the obvious once again, for the sake of the oblivious, who will never even see this. . File under #fatal #futility I suppose. . Yet, the risks to the individual and society of failing that core mission continues to fuel whole NPO’s and even NGO’s. Itemization of risks is not required, but obviously hold paramount the requirement ”to protect the user’s security and privacy online ...” as reminded by Jay Sullivan @ 36:15 @ Google I/O. . Meanwhile, as of just this week, there is now apparently no longer even the chance to clear your Authentic Human Existence with CAPTCHA on Google. Last week, they’d hammer you with a CAPTCHA for the unsavory act of protecting your own traffic, credit card data, SSN’s, etc. by daring to use an anonymizing proxy for search. . Today, you’re just apparently OUT OF LUCK, all because you’re protecting your ID from theft using fully paid, commercial, off-the-shelf encryption; at least that’s the case with Safari 4 on Mac OS X 10.5.7. . If I turn off my privacy proxy, the exact same request goes right through without a hitch. Turn it back on, we go back to this:
Please, spare me the condescending, “well, you might have done this or that …. or multiple requests that might look like bullshit … or whatever.” I’m using search like I’ve always used search, nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever. Google is simply becoming increasingly intolerant of privacy. Why do you think Google started crowing about how they defend privacy against backwater regimes? Because they want you to compare your baseline expectation to North Korea, rather than to your own historical norms. Help me Obi Wan Templeton, you’re my only hope.
