When I tell you I’ve never gone in for conspiracy theories, I’m being very serious. About five minutes ago, however, I changed my mind.
Perhaps it’s not so much a “conspiracy” as a blatent purchasing of a service by a government agency or a corporate entity operating at the behest of one. Below is the warning – something I’ve actually never seen until today, and which, upon comparison, other search engines did not exhibit:
Underneath the heading, Citizens for Health on New Food Safety Bill, there was a “warning” stating, “This site may harm your computer.” I dug a little deeper in some message boards on the topic, and it seems this pseudo-hack can be done by injecting index.html pages with new code at the bottom.
Hmm…
Because then, when you click through to override the warning, you STILL get waylaid by a subsequent Google screen. I’m unconvinced that Google is selling this service. There’s too much risk, given the PR climate of their China and recent UK issues. Smells like an industrial ag hack job to me. Anyone??
Off to rent Silkwood now. (Sigh).
