[Air-L] Opening the black box?

[Charles Ess]

This may not be the only black box to be opened:
<http://gizmodo.com/5842036/researchers-break-browser-encryption-that-protec
ts-almost-the-entire-internet>

Maybe time to get your cash out of the bank? (smile)
- charles ess
Professor MSO
Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab
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8200 Århus N.
Denmark
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Professor, Philosophy and Religion
Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA

Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23




On 9/22/11 9:28 AM, "Mathieu ONeil" <mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> The CEO of Google is being grilled by Congress about how the search algorithm
> works:
> 
> "Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who has battled Google in the past
> as a state attorney general, summed it up this way: ³First you ran the
> racetrack, then you owned the racetrack. You own the horses now, and
> your horses are winning"
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/googles-eric-schmidt-defend
> s-the-companys-search-practices/2011/09/21/gIQAR7AllK_blog.html?hpid=z5
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Mathieu
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