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Comment by foobarbazqux | Hacker News Reader

Alright, let's do a group experiment. Choose one of the links below:

http://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks (insecure)

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...

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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.

You can leave the internet, or just move to a different internet.

Just don't go cold turkey, eliminate a piece at a time. You probably don't need a smartphone, for example.

I don't have a smartphone. :)

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

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

Thanks for the inspiration!

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-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.

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

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?

> 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.

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... )

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

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.

I've got some links about Barbara Streisand.

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

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

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

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

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

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