Well, here's your answer: likely it wasn't Google at all, rather highly-politicized NSA snoops, hiding in the grass like the venomous snakes they are:
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Posted on 09/13/2013 5:37:12 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
...the US National Security Agency had apparently impersonated Google on at least one occasion to gather data on people....
Brazilian site Fantastico obtained and published a document leaked by Edward Snowden, which diagrams how a "man in the middle attack" involving Google was apparently carried out.
A technique commonly used by hackers, a MITM attack involves using a fake security certificate to pose as a legitimate Web service, bypass browser security settings, and then intercept data that an unsuspecting person is sending to that service. Hackers could, for example, pose as a banking Web site and steal passwords.
The article by Brazil's Fantastico mentions a hitherto unknown GCHQ spy program called "Flying Pig." This prompted a Twitter quip from Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kurt Opsahl: "PRISM, Flying Pig. Someone in the surveillance state has a thing for Pink Floyd album covers."
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If and when you are arrested, everyone on your ping list will kick in $1 towards your bail..
I was wondering what was going on with my site review numbers ...(sigh)
Bloggers should be glad of ANYONE reading their stuff.
The bulk of it is trash.
bttt
I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re affraid. You’re affraid of us. You’re affraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone. And then I’m gonna show this people what you don’t want them to see. I’m gonna show them the world. Without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world... where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I’ll leave to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNgNdELpvD8
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Go back and read what a "man in the middle" attack is. It has nothing to do with Google's web crawler indexing the pages on your website.
Seriously, folks. If you don't have a clue, resorting to hyperbole just makes it more obvious.
Gee thanks!
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You are an idiot and proudly proclaiming such to the world.
If you don’t understand WTF is going on related to this scandal, don’t muddy the waters with retarded diatribes, and let competent voices speak up for the people.
and then “they” came for the......???
Semper Watching!
Dick G
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Cryptohippie
I don’t usually mind your blog posts but, you really should have sourced, in an obvious manner, what was the majority of post.
I read that same article within the last day or two.
I am beginning to think that Snowden working with Putin may actually be able to take the US Government down, piece by piece.
Ding Dong..
‘Google Analytics’ is NSA?
That makes sense.. all those pauses were just data dumps..
Lurching toward a totalitarian state.
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