Squid & Google Safe Browsing API

Had finished today a small utility for implementing support of Google Safe Browsing API in Squid - squid-gsb. Documentation and build instructions you can find on my home page.

Google continue to attak information security market

Forbes reports, that Google got approval from the Federal Trade Commission regarding acquisition of the Postini Inc. - company, that implement hosted services in the branch of informational security - transferred data protection (both Web & e-mail), communication compliance, etc.

Google will active player?

Today Google had announced the Safe Browsing API, that allow external developers to use database of phishing & malware resources. As example, they show plugin for Firefox web-browser, that check addresses against this database.
Such active deployment of their technologies, could make Google very serious player on the market of content-filtering and information security. Companies, that sell url categorization databases, may loss part of their income.
It will be interesting to implement plugin, that will use this API in open-source projects, such as, Squid or Dansguardian.