At school I was never big or strong so naturally I avoided all form of physical confrontations with bigger guys. This left me with two choices, hang around with the nerds, keep my head down and hope to not get picked on. Or use my brains to become an evil mastermind and use my mind tricks on bigger guys to get them to beat up others on my behalf.

I opted for the latter.

The plan is pretty simple really and one that has been adopted by evil geniuses for centuries. It’s the template upon which every Bond villain is based. But recently the Cynic sensor has been detecting that the “do no evil” folk at Google may be employing the same tactic.

An Internet Explorer vulnerability has been blamed for the recent attacks against Google in China.

That’s a bit like saying, Coke employee’s were poisoned by cyanide in their Pepsi. You’d immediately wonder why Coke employees were drinking Pepsi. So why on earth was Google running Internet Explorer instead of their very own non-evil Chrome browser?

It’s easy to blame Microsoft for world problems. But these pieces don’t fit together too well. Panic has spread through France and Germany with them rec0mmending their citizens switch to a browser other than Internet Explorer.

Hmmmm so what alternatives are there? Have downloads of Chrome increased over the last few days?

Time to do some investigation – if I’m not back by tomorrow 0600 hours, my solicitor has details of how I’d like my memorial service conducted.