Google Goofs On Firefox's Anti-Phishing List

Stephen writes "While phishing is a problem, giving one company the power to block any site that it wishes at the browser level never seemed like a good idea. Today Google blocked a host of legitimate web sites by listing mine.nu. mine.nu is available as a dynamic dns domain and anybody can claim a sub domain. All sub-domains are blocked regardless of whether phishing actually occurs on the sub-domain or not. Several Linux enthusiast sites are caught up in the net including Hostfile Ad Blocking and Berry Linux Bootable CD."

Comments

Re:I hate that Google can do this

[Ash-Fox]

It's not a brand new account

No posts on the account, everyone on Slashdot is going to consider it brand new. Except perhaps for some possible next slur of posts by you.

You've embarrassed yourself on so many levels. It's brilliant.

And yet you tell me this, as if, you're trying to make this happen, but hasn't happened.

Not that your kind has any dignity.

Here you go again with your character assassination. Rather than debating the subject, you would rather go rampage on about how I apparently "embarrassed" myself by getting modded up to +5 Karma on two posts.

I'm just going to go now and leave you to making yourself look foolish on your own merits.

You are the one who is doing character assassination instead of coming up with a logical argument that cannot be refuted. I think you need to look in the mirror.

Perhaps you should of done some more research into believable argument - something that didn't rely on a low percentage of web users that use Firefox (only browser I'm aware of that uses Google's phishing lists) and the fact that Yahoo (doesn't use Google's phishing list) and Google are pretty much on par with each other for user usage.

Additionally not taking into account that the company in question could of reported a false positive and the fact that Google does not filter websites or match websites based on IP addresses.

I would like to point out that, since you insist there was IP matching, I have to wonder what kind of business this was, since obviously HTTPS is specific to IP addresses and a specific domain, they couldn't of had a HTTPS site since you suggest it was the same IP address and there were other sites on the same machine.

This "company" sounds really shady.

Re:I hate that Google can do this

[Ash-Fox]

Stop being such an asshole. You know what he means. Don't lead him on.

Ah, I like this trick. By posting earlier in the thread it looks like I'm leading on the person. Nice character assassination.

Moderators, I should caution you to look at the time of each post.