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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Sill<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] phony google<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:19 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>If little tiny innocent microscopic spike can think of this, the internet hipsters would be all over it 20 yrs ago. So how do I know if I have a counterfeit Google now? <span style='color:#1F497D'>… spike</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Use a trustworthy browser and trustworthy plug-ins. Go to <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> (or search from the URLtoolbar). Use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Avoid Windows. Understand that no matter what you do, you can't be sure that some bad guy isn't listening/intercepting/redirecting anything/everything you do: you can only make it harder for them to do that.<span style='color:#1F497D'> –</span>Dave<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have an idea Dave. I need some of you scriptsters to think about this and perhaps spin up some of your magic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A script could randomly generate three or four terms and search on them. A way to do that would be to download about a couple years of ExI-chat or Mensa archives, turn it into a straight text file or for that matter drop it into a spreadsheet (sorry, it’s the old hammer thing again), then randomly choose three or four words from that, search on them, open a random link in the top 30 for some random interval, repeat. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If the same websites keep coming up in the top 30 results, we know that either we have a bogus Google or that Google has gone over to the dark side and has ceased being not evil.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Another bonus for those of us who worry about privacy would be that it would obscure our web searches. Last year a very public court case used web search history as evidence in a criminal case. A young mother had evidently searched on chloroform. Later her baby perished under suspicious circumstances. The web search records were used in court. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What if we have some embarrassing thing we have searched, perhaps some kinky sex practice, we didn’t even do but wanted to know what it is. Good chance it would be better if a potential employer didn’t get that info. The script mentioned above could bury your possible latex chicken obsession under mountains of search terms. In fact, we could even intentionally put decoy terms in there to intentionally distract those who would call attention to my latex chicken searches. THEORETICAL latex chicken searches of course, I mean, you know, if anyone else other than ME, had you know, like, searched on something like that, theoretically and all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Scriptsters, what do we do now, coach?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>