advogato.008
6th May 2005
bi, I would have to agree with Rich Kyanka, although his urgency makes me wonder if he has ulterior motives. I don't know anything about him.
His point stands though. When I first heard about Google Accelerator, I thought "wow, what a privacy / security hole", then didn't give it another thought.
Interesting that he is paying a programmer to figure out how to stop Google from caching his website. The simple solution to that is to force all administrators to login with https, and automatically disable any admin account that has a successful login with plain http.
Of course, you need to educate your admins about how to check SSL certificates, and make sure it's not just Google doing a man-in-the-middle. But I guess that's a policy problem. :-)