[111208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Alston)
Sat Jan 31 16:18:30 2009
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:18:14 +0200
From: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>
To: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901310944020.72677@nog.angryox.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2009/01/31 04:50 PM Peter Beckman wrote:
> This morning whilest Googling, I got a bunch of "Permission Denied" to
> "/interstitial?..." URLs on Google.
>
> Then all my search results got listed as "This site may harm your
> computer."
>
> Is Google broken, or is the functionality of listing sites as broken,
> broken?
You know, I recently started turning off safe-site checks to stopbadware.
Never mind this incident, I've noticed *a lot* of sites getting
blocked arbitrarily. Checking the site for reasons gives only the most
tenuous reasoning, and on a number of occasions misspellings of the
site I was actually visiting (as in, it was blocking the site I wanted
based on a similarly or misspelt version being bad).
I do think Firefox for one misappropriates the accuracy of the system.
Essentially it is allowing one site to dictate what their users can view.
Anyway, my 2c rant on web blacklists..
