Despite that a national security letter comes with a gag order, forbidding recipients of NSLs to tell targeted customers about the government requesting their records, Google released a new transparency report about NSLs the company has received.
Ms. Smith’s blog
About 1,000 times a day, someone somewhere makes a computerized attempt to get access to the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation computer system to see what’s on the inside. On some days, there are 10,000 or 12,000 attempts to get beyond the security system …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Lists Top 1,000 Sites On The Web & Then Lets You Advertise On Them — The Google AdWords blog announced new features for Google Ad Planner and AdWords content network today. — The big news is that Google publicly released a list of the top 1,000 sites by unique users as measured by Ad Planner.