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On August 29, an hour after 360 Search released "Building a Safe, Clean, and Effectively Competitive Internet Search Market" at around 16:30 p.m., an email from GF and other four securities firms appeared on the Internet: Disable 360 Browsing Devices and Series Products" such reports.
The report said, “Four securities companies, GF Securities, Guohai Securities, Guosen Securities and Haitong Securities, issued internal emergency notices one after another, prohibiting employees from using Qihoo 360 Security Guard and 360 Secure Browser, and requiring employees to have installed them. Employees of these two software should uninstall them as soon as possible.”
Suspicion of 360 products based on the self-published information of 360 products.
From this information, we can draw two pieces of information. First, these four securities companies have been using 360 products before today, including 360 Security Guard and 360 Security Browser; second, these four securities companies, I just realized the "unreliability" of 360 products today. What does this mean? It means that these four securities companies have been using 360 products, and so far, there has not been any leakage of confidential information, nor has any customer reported the leakage of personal information. Just today, "internal emergency notice" bans 360 browser and series of products.
So what information do they use to suspect the unreliability of 360 products? "In the privacy policy of 360 Browser, it is stated that 360 Secure Browser will record practical information about browsing history on your computer." Yes. It can be seen that their information comes from the self-announced privacy policy of 360 products. This "useful information" includes browsing history, screenshots of most web pages you have visited, cookie or network storage data, temporary files left when visiting websites, etc. This information is indeed private and cannot be known to outsiders. I just want to ask, which browser cannot record this information? Firefox, IE, Google and many other browsers do not record this information? The answer is obvious. Is this information collected by 360 just because of the emergence of 360 search crawlers?
The comments made by technical experts on Wuyun Vulnerability Platform are just floating clouds.
Technical experts from Wuyun Vulnerability Platform said that 360 Search may expose "the website's backend address, internal systems, etc. that cannot be exposed to the outside world in the search results." Well, you provided the keywords, and we people across the country will search for it. Is there really secret information discovered? The expert also believes that the 360 search crawler ignored the protocol stipulated in robots.txt and illegally crawled website content, posing a potential threat to subsequent data adjustments. I think this information may be considered a threat to the majority of search users, but to the majority of webmasters, the announcement of this information may be scoffed at, because Baidu spider crawlers are equally threatening.
360 Antivirus or Kingsoft Antivirus, who is better?
360 software has security vulnerabilities that secretly collect user information, thereby leaking user secrets and privacy. This was the announcement of Kingsoft anti-virus software in 2010. We reserve our opinions on all kinds of struggles between peers. Just a rhetorical question, did Kingsoft discover this vulnerability in 360 software easily, or was it discovered after in-depth research and repeated testing? Is it because the skills are inferior to others, learning from competitors' products, or is it malicious disclosure or fabrication? We don't know. .
360 Search has just been launched. It is a major threat to the search engine market. Through a series of measures taken by the search engine giant Baidu, we can easily see the influence of 360 Search online; for users, if 360 Search is true to its claims , "Building a safe, clean, and effectively competitive Internet search market" is beneficial and harmless now, for our next generation and in the future; for webmasters, as a webmaster, I very much hope 360 Search can go online, rise, and become popular.
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