Articles of the week
Does Google really take privacy seriously?
“It is becoming very concerning that cross site scripting (XSS) attacks on Google services have become a common headline in the news recently. We only hear about the holes that are publicly disclosed 鈥?but you can bet there are many others that go unreported and are abused without you or Google even knowing.
“As a relative newcomer to the world of politics, there鈥檚 been a perception that the whiz kids had lot of catching up to do. [...]
According to Google鈥檚 filing, the company spent about $580,000 lobbying the federal government during the first six months of this year.”
“We made some significant upgrades to our back-end systems to improve the stability of DMOZ. One of those changes required changing the root domain from dmoz.org to www.dmoz.org. What we all witnessed yesterday and what was reported by the great sites above was part of an index recognizing, adjusting and updating in real time.”