[Chapter-delegates] Great powers bring great responsibilities

[Richard Barnes]

I realize you may just be venting, but it's important to keep your
situation in the context of the overall security of the web.

Operating a web server that anyone on the web can access is also a power
that entails responsibilities.  If the servers providing malware were
serving it on the https://uma.es domain, then Google was correct to block
that domain.

Safe Browsing has huge benefit to the overall security of the web.  Keeping
it up to date given how quickly malware moves around is a monumental task,
and that team does well at it.  There will be inevitable false positives;
your case may be one.  Hopefully Google will be responsive to your request.

--Richard


On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:59 PM Victoriano Giralt <victoriano at uma.es> wrote:

> I wish you do not find this to be off topic (I really need to vent).
>
> There is a heated debate all over about censorship on the Internet and
> giving those powers to entities like Google or Internet providers.
>
> Well, today I have a clear example why this powers should not be on such
> hands, and it is not even censorship ... but it has all the ingredients
> to create a lot of harm to some tens of thousands of people.
>
> The University of Málaga is a mid-sized University with about 35
> thousand students, 5 thousand staff and about another thousand or so of
> other kinds of community members.
>
> Today, Google has found that there were two web servers among several
> hundreds in our domain, and they have decided that the best way to
> protect the internet is blocking the whole uma.es domain. It even does
> not matter if the server name exists in DNS or not, you get a big red
> screen warning about the site.
>
> We are starting the term, so, there will be 35 thousand students trying
> to register on Monday and instead getting red warnings.
>
> There is no mail address or phone number to call for requesting a quick
> correction. And their automated process say it will happen before "72
> hours".
>
> Censorship at its best.
>
> --
> Victoriano Giralt                             CIO
>                                               University of Malaga
> +34952131415                                  SPAIN
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> A: Yes.
> > Q: Are you sure ?
> >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email ?
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