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What implications does Facebook eclipsing Google have on the evolution of the web?

It’s a known fact that Google collects, analyzes, and logs all of your Internet traffic and data that passes through them for advertising purposes. As GoogleSharing creator Moxie Marlinspike said: “Google thrives where privacy does not…If you’re like most Internet users, Google knows more about you than you might be comfortable with.” (via The Register). [...]

If you’ve been following the Google Hack by China at all you’ll know that the zero-day vulnerability codenamed Aurora (watch it in action on Praetorian Prefect) in Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer web browser was the cause of the security breaches. After that information was brought out first Germany and now France has advised its citizens [...]

Google reported on its blog today that the company has been repeatedly attacked by Chinese hackers, possibly working for the government, over a span of what could be up to two years. The Mountain View company is using this as an opportunity to finally turn back to their “don’t be evil” philosophy and tell China [...]

Many people made predictions of what 2010 was to hold. Somehow I managed not to stumble across Rik Myslewski’s article in The Register. Whoops. He paints a poignant picture of corporate techno-conspiracy surrounding the growing embrace of cloud computing and the loss of device control as companies such as Apple and Google tell us what [...]

There is a lot of debate right now as to whether or not Google can be trusted. The Mountain View company has launched a new DNS Service and has begun to profile not just signed-in members but anyone using their search engine. For a long time Google has analyzed all of our Internet traffic that [...]