Niels Provos is a Google software engineer who spends his weekends forging Viking weaponry. And that's only appropriate.
Google, you see, is caught up in a never-ending arms race. It began in the late '90s, when criminals started using Google's search engine as a tool to find vulnerable websites, and in the years since, it has mushroomed into a battle of enormous scale, with the bad guys trying to flood Google search results with phishing sites, marketing campaigns, and -- worst of all -- webpages that try to attack and install malicious software on any machine that visits them.
Provos is the man charged with keeping those web barbarians at bay -- all of them.
By: Robert McMillan, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/26/wired-swordsmith
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