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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"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <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 2:30 PM, Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div id=":2a6"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>"Avoid Windows" feels to me like advice of the kind "wear a tinfoil<br>hat" or "leave the TV on when you're not home."<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>No, not "tinfoil hat" advice, but based on common sense<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> you'll need to remain vigilant and cautious with whichever platform you choose.-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'>Hmmm, ja, but diligence, vigilant and caution are all irrelevant if I have no tools to detect something like a phony Google. <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 this occurs to me, then Google would surely have been on this exact question back before the dawn of time. A few days ago, I downloaded a free app and somehow allowed Delta Search to embed itself in my operating system. It brutally replaced Google in every preference setting and stayed there even after I did a search and delete on every file known to be associated in any way with Delta. My virus checker was helpless in its grip, my cookie cutters, my ad alert software, nothing could cure it. I went online and was astonished to see actual debate among internet hipsters about how to get rid of Delta Search. Now THAT is one hell of a software infection. Delta Search is the AIDS of computer viruses.<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'>Had Delta Search called itself Google instead, I would never know it was there, would not go to the trouble of struggling for hours to get rid of it. With that technology, any company could make actual money by subtly inserting ads, hijacking this or that, redirecting, even filtering search results by political or religious flavor. That would be worth a FORTUNE! A company could use whatever Delta Search is doing, then redirect the stampeding herd over the cliff of its choosing. All of us unsuspecting senior citizens (WAIT, rather I meant of course THOSE OTHER senior citizens, not including me at all) would have not a clue.<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'>Could you imagine the value of something like being able to filter out news stories slanted to the right or to the left? They could even take existing news stories, modify them slightly to change the political slant of an article, then pass it along as the original. That is POWER! <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'>There would be plenty of the younger market who are too distracted trying to learn the latest on Justin Beeber to have any clue that some greedy (NTTAWWT) capitalist owns everything they search on, controls everything they see, filters every internet action for fun and profit.<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'>All that vigilance is useless if we don’t know what to look for or how to fix it once we get suspicious.<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'>Anyone know if Google has a way to detect if there is an evil third party intervening? Could they rig some kind of authenticity code somehow, so that if there is a few hundred millisecond delay caused by an intermediate party doing something between themselves and an internet user, they could catch the bastards? Who do we ask at Google?<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><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>