Improvements to Google Adsense
(1) Security and Privacy Google Adsense Bowling is growing in notoriety primarily because it is so simple. There are two ways to accomplish this: implicate the Adsense publisher in click-fraud by generating false clicks for that publisher, or grotesquely violate the TOS by posting Adsense code in places it shouldn’t be (to vulnerable guestbooks, forums, in spam emails, etc). Google could increase the security and privacy of publishers by implementing the following. a. Site Tokens Instead of using a publisher ID, Adsense publishers could generate site-tokens that would allow the AdSense code to only work on that particular domain. This way, malicious users could not use the second method mentioned above by posting AdSense to alternate sites in manners that...
Top Searches Google Should Suppress
I am opposed to censorship, but I also support privacy rights. Google’s massive database of anything and everything coupled with powerful search technologies have utterly destroyed privacy as we once knew it. An entire community of Google-Enabled hacking and mayhem has arisen around the search giant, including the popular johnny.ihackstuff.com . Below, I have compiled a list of the top 8 searches that Google should suppress to protect privacy of millions of people across the internet. I am sure some people will be upset by the information below. I haven’t let the cat out of the bag, this information has been available for nefarious characters for years, it just really has not been talked about enough. So, in no meaningful order, here we go… 1....
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Google “Ana-Busted”
Google Caught Spying with Their Own Software In the wee morning hours I decided to check the daily stats on our newly installed Google Analytics account. Know thy enemy right? Anyhow, much to my surprise, and great interest, I noticed a small plip on the screen to the far west of the continental US. Mousing over said plip low and behold the all too famous town of Mountain View, California appeared before my eyes. For those of you not with me that is the home town of Google HQ. To confirm my suspicions I clicked over to the â€Å”Network Location†of our Mountain View visitor and observed that â€Å”Google†was the answer. Further analysis revealed that they typed the url in directly and are using Firefox...
The War is Coming.
The War Is Coming The first cyber-war will be big. For the longest time we have thought of cyber-war in terms of government agents launching digital attacks against an enemy country’s infrastructure. Perhaps it would be terrorists hacking into a government’s treasury, or digital mercenaries shutting down the power grid. The first cyber-war, however, will be nothing like that. It will involve governments only tangetially. And the heroes of this war will be the spammers. With the recent closing of Blue Security Group, Eran Reshef, CEO of Blue Security said, “It’s clear to us that [quitting] would be the only thing to prevent a full-scale cyber-war that we just don’t have the authority to start.” Reshef’s anti-spam company...
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