News Google anti-phishing gave out passwords

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/01/23/Google_anti_phishing_gave_out_passwords/

 

As a native Scot I feel I must stand up for my country by correcting your literary reference - you seem to imply it was Steinbeck who wrote "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry", when in fact the proverb is derived from Robert Burns' To a Mouse (1785), a line in the second last stanza of which reads "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / gang aft agley". Steinbeck merely borrowed from Burns for the title of his 1937 novel Of Mice and Men.

</pedantic off-topic patriotism>


On-topic: naughty Google.

 

'mon the scots.

And yes, Lesson learned by google!

 

it happens, hey they did not predict that phishing sites would put user names and passwords on the URL


and for something diferent:
GOOGLE SUCKS BOOOOO!!!!! TEHY ARE TEH EVIL AND THE DUMB!!!!! BOOOO!!!! J/K

 

It was an accident, accidents happen. They fixed it straight away, so I have no problem with them.

 

What was that about Microsoft?

 

I never imagined this would happen, but I certainly imagined something would.
While it seemed a good idea in principle, the skeptic in me knew better than to enable that particular feature in my firefox google toolbar.

 

Seriously... integration is never good when it goes that far.. (read: integrated graphics, MS, smart cars, we should have learned from them, so much dependance!)

 

No question here for me. Never good. Never.
(Total integration? Energy companies anyone? )