Re: Google Beta "WiFi" VPN

[Paul Wouters <paul () xelerance com>]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Barrie Dempster wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:11 -0500, MadHat wrote:
> > What sort of information does Google have access to?
> >
> > If you choose to use Google Secure Access, your internet traffic
> > will
> > be encrypted and sent through Google's servers to the Internet. The
> > data that is received will then be encrypted and sent back through
> > our servers to your computer. Your privacy is important to us, we
> > strongly encourage you to read our Privacy Policy to be fully
> > informed about how your privacy is protected.
>
> Notice the complete glossing over of the fact that Google see everything
> in this answer. Seems a very underhanded way to say "all your base", as
> they mention encryption more than once but the reader is left to read
> between the lines (or read the privacy policy) to be aware that Google
> can read the data.

And apparently, per default it installs the google bar as well.

Can anyone from the Bay Area actually download this software and send me a
copy? I'm interested to see whether they're using some vpn solution or some
proxy-ssl solution.

Since it does not interfere with 'already installed vpn solutions', I am
guessing this is using some ssl based proxy/von solution, perhaps openvpn?

Paul