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How am I supposed to trust an official Google security blog named "googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com"? What a bizarre place to put your security blog!
by aaronharnly 14y ago
How am I supposed to trust an official Google security blog named "googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com"? What a bizarre place to put your security blog!
- kefs 14y agoWhat were you expecting.. wordpress? Here is Google's blog directory.. all on blogspot, their blogging platform: https://www.google.com/intl/en/press/blog-directory.html#tab0 https://www.google.com/intl/en/press/blog-directory.html#tab...
- jzwinck 14y agoI would have expected something like security.google.com, which would be pretty obviously not a hoax. As it stands, what stops anyone from making googleinternetsecurity.blogspot.com?
- aaronharnly 14y agoIndeed. I went ahead and created http://googleinternetsecurity.blogspot.com http://googleinternetsecurity.blogspot.com as a proof of concept. I wonder whether it will be allowed to exist.
- illumen 14y agoExcept anyone can create a blogspot url. So someone could just create something similar (for a short time at least).
- ceejayoz 14y agoThere's no reason it has to be on a blogspot.com subdomain. They could easily put it on a custom subdomain of Google.com and leave no question about whether it's official or a scam. http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1233381&page=ts.cs http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts...
- pasbesoin 14y agoI guess with long familiarity, many of us just recognize it as a/the legitimate source. That said, if they move it under the google.com domain, I hope they do not update it to use one of those blank-awful new Blogspot templates that coerce the use of Javascript (or the Google cache) to see anything. There would be, indeed -- from my perspective -- a bit of a contradiction (making me run their Javascript).