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Google Admits That Google.com Is Partially Dangerous (eweek.com)
darthcamaro writes: For over a decade, Google's Safe Browsing technology has helped to alert users to dangerous sites, where malware and phishing exploits can be found. Apparently, one of those unsafe sites is none other than Google.com itself.
According to eWeek, "Google's automatic spidering of the Web will catch some malicious sites, and by Google's own admission, there are sites in its index that will redirect users to locations that will attempt to install malware on their computers. Google also admits and warns that by way of Google.com (and the sites linked in its index), 'Attackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information (for example passwords, messages, or credit card information).'"
According to eWeek, "Google's automatic spidering of the Web will catch some malicious sites, and by Google's own admission, there are sites in its index that will redirect users to locations that will attempt to install malware on their computers. Google also admits and warns that by way of Google.com (and the sites linked in its index), 'Attackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information (for example passwords, messages, or credit card information).'"
is that a US billion dollar corporation is being honest for a change and applying the same rules to themselves as others.
Much as *I* hate myself for being a gen-x waste of space and watching my contemporaries raising monumentally self-absorbed children who end up on tumblr and reddit complaining about trivial bullshit, I still believe that you have to grow up at some point and take personal responsibility.
My mother was the first in her family to get to go to university. My grandfather got shot at by German occupiers as a profession and his dad died in a ditch in France doing the same. Every generation has different issues to deal with and every generation should stop pretending that their own particular cross to bear is so much worse than every other.
But good on you for trying to be a decent human being. At the end of the day, that's all we can really expect from people.
Google may have indexed bad sites and not realized it. News at 11.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
This sounds about as intrinsically dangerous as a phone book: some of the numbers enclosed may connect you to criminals and naughty people.
-Styopa