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Google Blocks Porn In Base, Patches Appliance
An anonymous reader writes "The search giant has moved to fix a problem in Google Base which didn't properly block pornographic material in their search results. According to Google, the filter was broken for 'some period of time' but the company didn't elaborate. Nathan Weinberg could have been one of the first to report the incident on his blog, Inside Google, writing: 'Holy crap, there is a lot of porn at Google Base! Looks like, just like Google Images, Google Base could become a huge source of porn, and eventually a place where porn will be sold. I even noticed some movie reviews.'" They've also recently corrected a problem with their search appliance. geo_2677 wrote to mention a Securityfocus.com article discussing the rapid patching of the Google search boxes in response to a vulnerability.
Because this is on the company level. GOOGLE is doing this - not the feds.
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
I think it is because Slashdot is (finally) compliant with a recent version of HTML / CSS / etc. The new version renders in a different fashion. On the main page, the sidebars load last, the centre gets squished suddenly at the end.
On comment pages, the comments are last to load, and the sidebar ad is centred until the width of the comments are established (or something) and then it all looks right.
Seems that more and more security researchers are turning their attention to Google these days. There has been a spate of recent bugs published to the usual mailing lists in past weeks.
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Title: Google Talk Denial of Service - BenjiBug
Google Talk's automatic update mechanism (which can't be turned off) checks to see if the downloaded file matches a signature, but it doesn't check the size of the file. So it can be forced to compute a hash of a 1 gig file, crashing the machine.
Killer Empty Sender Message
echo kill | nail -s Kill -r "" victim (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]
crashes Google Talk
Google Talk cleartext proxy credentials vulnerability
Google Talk stores the GMail login details securely, but not the proxy authentication credentials
Not to mention the GMail bug discussed on
Ah, the perpetual beta..
The porn sites should be fortunate enough that they can be found through regular Google Search. If anything, Google needs to crack down on the bogus porn and spam sites that add keywords to their meta tags and webpages to sneek in search results. These doctored results are starting to effect the performance and accuracy of the Google Search.
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
"black (or blue) box, so a hard crash might mean having to send it back?"
That depends on the design.*
One can have either a roll-back, or switch-over to a known configuration.
Two one can have a remote-login from Google HQ to fix whatever's needed.
The only reason to send something back is if the hardware is physically broken.
*Remember these basically are custom computers. Not DELL generic, stick any handy OS on, cross your fingers and pray, computers you put together from left-over parts.