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05.09.05
Google Web Accelerator And Security
 By Mark Fleming
The web is abuzz with talk of the pros and cons of the new Google Web Accelerator. Mostly the con, and the issue is privacy. I want to let you in on an immediate problem you must understand.
This morning, the Inside Google blog published in its excellent article, Much Controversy of Web Accelerator, a very worrisome bug that is a byproduct of GWA-getting logged into some web sites as someone else! Or put in a more frightening way, others can see pages of YOURS as if they were logged in as you.
An excerpt:
"See, Google isn't serving web pages faster, its serving other people's versions of the web page faster. What does that mean? Try using Web Accelerator on a forum site, one with lots of geeks who love Google and probably already have Web Accelerator installed. Why, if you're lucky, you'll be logged in as someone else, as the folks at SomethingAwful.com discovered.
The posters in that forum discovered that most of the times they refreshed the page, they were logged in as a different person, seeing their friend's control panel for the forums.
They were even kind enough to provide screenshots."
Read it. Then bookmark this article with this permalink and send it to your friends who might be using GWA. Quickly. I've just turned mine off.
Web Accelerator And Your 404 Page
 By Nathan Weinberg
Google Web Accelerator's most useful function is that it, in theory, removes the Slashdot effect where you get a 404 "Page Not Found" error when visiting an overburdened site. But what happens when you type in an address that doesn't exist?
In Firefox, this happens:
Click to View Picture.
Google's Web Accelerator serves up that page instead of a 404. This according to Benjamin Adam, who reminds us of when Verisign changed the 404 and caught hell for it. Of course, Google is different, because you choose to have it this way. The Google 404 page, of course, also has a link to a Google search.
I'm kind of surprised they don't put the search results on the page.
The 404 page has a reason for existing in Firefox, as commenter Justin P. explains:
The reason that this only happens in Firefox is probably because IE serves up that little local document that says host not found. Firefox on the other hand presents an annoying pop-up window. Maybe Google's thought is to get rid of that annoying pop-up?
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