PRISM, Google, Debian

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 20/06/13 at 13:53 +0200, Jérémie Zimmermann - La Quadrature du Net wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> Revelations about Prism show clearly that we cannot trust Google (and
> others) anymore. Still, Iceweasel uses Google as a default search engine
> (and "feeling lucky" by default?) It's understandable from Firefox'
> point of view, as the deal with G is their major source of revenue.
> 
> But what about Debian? Wouldn't that be a strong move for Debian to
> outline this paradoxical situation of software bound to these services
> (themselves bound to generalized surveillance), by changing its default
> settings?
> 
> With Datalove, GNUly yours,

Salut Jérémie,

I'm Ccing the Mozilla maintainers team.

Indeed, the current status is that Iceweasel uses Google by default, but
also provides the ability to search using DuckDuckGo (see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616115 and
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00092.html for
background).

Changing this status is a decision for the iceweasel package maintainers
to make (which can be overriden, if necessary, by the Technical
Committee, as stated in the Debian Constitution).  This is not a
decision that the DPL can make, so I'll refrain from commenting further
on this.

Lucas
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