This may not be the only black box to be opened: <http://gizmodo.com/5842036/researchers-break-browser-encryption-that-protec ts-almost-the-entire-internet> Maybe time to get your cash out of the bank? (smile) - charles ess Professor MSO Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 On 9/22/11 9:28 AM, "Mathieu ONeil" <mathieu.oneil@anu.edu.au> wrote:
The CEO of Google is being grilled by Congress about how the search algorithm works:
"Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who has battled Google in the past as a state attorney general, summed it up this way: ³First you ran the racetrack, then you owned the racetrack. You own the horses now, and your horses are winning"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/googles-eric-schmidt-defe... s-the-companys-search-practices/2011/09/21/gIQAR7AllK_blog.html?hpid=z5
cheers,
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