February 1, 2009
This weekend (Jan 31, 2009), Google's content advisor application, owing to human error, categorized the entire internet as "malicious." See Security Focus.
I tend to agree with Google, even though they corrected the coding error. The recursive search is demonstrated here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oCHxB8d20s
Google coordinates search results with stopbadware.org to provide end-users with 'friendly warnings' that search results host malicious content. The problem here is the sheer scale of malicious content, or legitimate content that has been poisoned by internet miscreants and/or criminals, will never be covered by any filtering mechanism.
The bottom line is the appearance of hazard in anything online.
Posted by Thomas Siu at 10:14 PM
