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@ Peril of Spinel
2025-06-08 22:22:27
Well ...
1. Even if Duck Duck Go doesn't keep logs, so far as I know, they don't do their own searches directly. Last I heard, they act as an intermediary between the users and the outfit they're buying results from (a while back that was Bing; whether it still is, I don't know).
2. That search is probably unique. I doubt anyone else has ever searched for your secret key. In that way it sorta sticks out. So it's not whether you trust Duck Duck Go, but how much you trust any of the larger companies they could have bought search results from (Microsoft or conceivably Google).
3. I would assume the key has been seen and logged by large nosy agencies, including from unfriendly nation-states.
4. If you have an ordinary life, past, present, and future, likely nothing will come of it anyway.
5. But I think I've just about talked myself into disclaiming any key pair if I ever accidentally search for the secret key. Most likely nothing would come of it; but who can know that the future we'll see is a likely one?