Could Googling Take Down a President?

[abzug]

http://mags.acm.org/communications/200801/
Click "Contents", then the page 71 article

[Netlist]

Apart from the fact that I can't read the article - too small written and blurred if magnified (not your fault) - we have a rule against political discussions here.
At least I assume that's what the article is about.

/Hugo

[abzug]

No, it's about technology and privacy, not politics. Don't rush to judgment.

The magazine name should have given it away--Communications of the ACM, where ACM = Association for Computing Machinery and is the primary professional organization for computer science.

As for the text being small--clicking into the text area zooms it to something that on my screen compares to 16 point size font, or quite a bit larger than the default font size on the forums here.

[theAnonymous1]

The whole magazine can be downloaded as a very readable PDF.

As far as the article goes.

[gtforme00]

Interesting article, a bit on the conspiracy theorist side, but who doesn't like a good conspiracy theory every once in awhile?

I have had some similar concerns about search engines, especially as a Research and Development Engineer who works on confidential projects. By looking at my search strings, a reasonable guess could be made as to what my current projects are.

Certainly gives me food for thought.

[abzug]

Not to mention all your browsing habits can be tied in to these because Google ads are in most websites. I block all Google adsense related domains in my hosts file; it doesn't affect the search and gmail and they work fine with that.

[theAnonymous1]

Or if your extremely paranoid you could use a program like PeerGuardian 2 to automatically block domains.

[Ron E]

Originally posted by abzug
Could Googling Take Down a President?

Maybe so, maybe not; but we are darn sure that ogling can take down a president