BASE813 0 #1 May 9, 2005 just if your interested and/or have started using it: QuoteGoogle Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before. http://webaccelerator.google.com/ QuoteOn a Google Labs discussion group, one user said that the security implications of Google caching details of Internet sessions were unacceptable. "I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know. Great, I've used Google's Web Accelerator for a couple of hours, visited lots of sites where I'm logged in. Now I wonder how many people used my cache. I understand it's a beta, sure, but something like that is totally unacceptable." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrBrant 0 #2 May 9, 2005 also, when i logged into my online banking today, they had a msg pop up, to let me know that same thing. Security is BAD. Wouldn't suggest using it if you do online banking. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
simpsora 0 #3 May 9, 2005 QuoteWouldn't suggest using it if you do online banking. Assuming your bank encrypts communications between you and them (check for "https://..." in the address bar when logged in, or a little padlock icon at the bottom of your browser window), nobody but your browser and the bank's server should be able to read the traffic between you. That said, I wouldn't login to my banking site while using the web accelerator. Google collects all kinds of statistics on the users of their systems, and my banking information is private Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PhreeZone 20 #4 May 9, 2005 Thats not all the way true, you can completly cache HTTPS sessions and depending on the implementaion it sounds like this is just serving sessions from distributed sources instead of from the original webserver. That would mean that a local cache might have gone to https://mybank.com and its stored then. When you go out to https://mybank.com its closer in hop and ms count to go to the neighbors cache and pull the content from there then from mybank.com. You'd be pulling the cached content right out of his store and putting it on yours. Then you'd end up serving it out to the next person looking for mybank.com on your segment. This is a common issue that internal proxy/cache admins have had to deal with for years. a distributed cache is a whole new step.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
PhreeZone 20 #4 May 9, 2005 Thats not all the way true, you can completly cache HTTPS sessions and depending on the implementaion it sounds like this is just serving sessions from distributed sources instead of from the original webserver. That would mean that a local cache might have gone to https://mybank.com and its stored then. When you go out to https://mybank.com its closer in hop and ms count to go to the neighbors cache and pull the content from there then from mybank.com. You'd be pulling the cached content right out of his store and putting it on yours. Then you'd end up serving it out to the next person looking for mybank.com on your segment. This is a common issue that internal proxy/cache admins have had to deal with for years. a distributed cache is a whole new step.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
