Often i read about the google street view cars. I also have seen some pictures of them. But today, they drove for a few hundred meters in front of me. I hope my car posed sweet enough to be published :)
Tag - google
Sunday, February 15 2009
Google-Cache: Warning - phishing (web forgery) suspected
By vmk on Sunday, February 15 2009, 23:17
Do you remember the false blocklist for a few moment on the results for a google search? "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!. It seems that this problem is still going on. You get for every cached site a phishing warning, just even on google itself!
1) Just view images:
You see on these images: Just do a simple search (first), then select the first result in a cached version (second) and you get the wrong phishing warning (third). The ip on the third image is owned by google: http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/74.125.77.132, it is the google cache.
2) Test it on your own
Do you want test it? Just query google for example with 'google mail' (<- This is clickable :) ) and select the first result in the cached version.
Automated blocking, like the planned version in here in germany, would lead false positives like this. Just think about why you want to blocked and what is the intention for it. Blocking websites won't solve the problems in "real" life.
Update: Just on this minutes after testing the links in this blog entry, the phishing warning disappears. How much do you trust a block list or google? I think this problems will appear more often in future, when there will be active blocking by various authorities. Funny future... It is time to block yourself *g*