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Google Hands Out Web Security Scanner
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently feeling generous this week, Google has released for free another of their internally developed tools: this time, a nifty web security scanner dubbed skipfish. A vendor-sponsored study cited by InformationWeek discovered that 90% of all web applications are vulnerable to security attacks. Are Google's security people trying to change this?"
Google is one of the most anti-privacy, intrusive evil corporations out there, second only to Facebook. They make a living over promiscuous sharing of personal data. Why should I trust them?
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Google goes with ' Do No Evil' - then makes dough in China until they have Chinese script kiddies tickling their code, and all the privacy and other violations.
Now - that only reminds me of Fox news saying Fair and Balanced - they are neither of those... ditto with Google.
So just cos they 'Tell you' under 3 pages of legalese, and then say we dont censor - when they censor in multiple countries, and then schmidt says if you are worried about being tracked maybe you should not do it.....
Saying they have told us - so they can do it, is like saying, banks can charge $20 for overdraft of 50c - no it is still evil and someone needs to regulate it and slap them down.
That is like saying that you should’t badmouth Hitler, but just not to to Germany in 1942. ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
They didn't lie to me, but they tricked me into making my email part of a social network.
Including skipfish. While I haven't downloaded it, I have no doubt that something is being reported back to Google. Just as with any business practice, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. Google advertising maybe? Possibly, whatever the reason, I doubt "Free" in this case really isn't "Free".