Google Gets Honest - Then Changes Mind
In one of the most honest moves in Google’s history, Google admitted to their own customers that their own site is bad and can be used to harm your computer. Don’t believe me?
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Okay, okay, so it was just one of the worst tested code rollouts in history, they weren’t actually admitting it (at least not on purpose). The site couldn’t handle the load, and there was a bug. But it sure is funny and ironic since really they are the top rated worst offender yet I highly doubt they will be blocking their own IP space again. At least not on purpose.
hypocrisy [hi-pok-ruh-see] (n) - when living up to your own standards simply won’t do. 
January 31st, 2009 at 10:43 am
LOL
January 31st, 2009 at 10:51 am
Nice post
I was amused by Google today and a bit scared :/
January 31st, 2009 at 11:06 am
Rough!
January 31st, 2009 at 11:59 am
This is what I’ve been saying for a long time, that was google working. Now it’s broken again
January 31st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Hey guys, I don’t think Google is rolling out such inexperience code like that. The StopBadware.org is likely the cause, as it timeouts for each malware query from Google, hence misclassifying everything as malware.
Here’s an outage : http://eajournal.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/google-search-errors-created-from-stopbadwareorg-outage/
Anyway, food for thought, this thing actually brought the Internet to a partial halt when users freak out ( yea I got a lot of non-tech commoners calling me ) they got infected, globally. People just don’t know where to start other than Google.
Now how many such point of failures are there?
Or we can think about the legal consequences …?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Ahhh. Got it. the new update. =) so it was some human error. And wowa, is Google one of the biggest DDoS out there? =)
January 31st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Why does Google feel they have to be the Internet police anyway?
January 31st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Hi there,
Very nice articles …
Securing peoples computers is a race against time.
Tomorrow you have to patch them again.
Put them all in a sandbox enviroment and then if/when things go wrong, give them a new sandbox.
Maybe some sort of virtualization network enviroment, where all users are running a virtual system that keeps no changes
Those that wants to keep changes, stores on a drive in same enviroment which is constantly checked for viruses, malware etc etc.
Perhaps this is already implemented many places dunno..
Again thanks for articles
January 31st, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Rofl, The most random of wikipedia articles had that error..
January 31st, 2009 at 11:47 pm
You know… it’s scary how when something like this happens we realize our reliance on Google’s technologies. Aren’t there other search engines too?
February 1st, 2009 at 3:45 am
>>Rafal Los
Exactly. Well, where do you really start other than from Search Engines?
Moreover, does that imply people are so accustomed to Google that other search engines doesn’t matter already? ( They don’t even give a try )
Gmail spam filtering is also affected, apparently : http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-mornings-spam-filter-issue.html
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am
stopbadware failure lead to scared google (-;
January 21st, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Guys!
In December I wrote a post to The Web Security Mailing List about interesting case of Google’s honest (about infected sites):
Infected google.com, yahoo.com and blogspot.com