It is true that one hosts a website in order to profit from it in whatever capacity. As such, it comes a shocking blow to know that as of 2008, officials in Thailand have blocked viewership to over 2300 websites to locals.  The major reason cited for such mass blockage is security and defamation of the government.

This becomes important keeping in mind that the political scenario in Thailand is not too stable and anything that’s cited against the king isn’t taken too well. Sites banned also include pornographic sites. The strange part of this analysis is the 90% of these sites are hosted overseas which means that international website owners stand to suffer. What may be viewed as acceptable and informational content elsewhere in the word is a taboo in Thailand?

Banned sites include those containing cartoons, articles, blogs and even YouTube videos. Thailand isn’t the first country to be practicing such large scale banning and this is popularly carried out in China too. In fact China tops the list in terms of stringency but news of banned sites elsewhere will influence website owners to review their content so as to not face the ire of threatened governments across the globe.

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Local web pages in the personal computer of users could be a main place for attack through internet. Mailing websites like gmail will not be able to do something which will prevent internet attack from directly affecting user’s desktop by sending downloadable pages to the local machine. The security policy implemented by Google chrome has various security features which prevent the attacks that can happen through the downloadable pages. This will help users to be safe from attacks through pages downloaded with Chrome and opened with other browsers.

Chrome will use the mark of the web technique to mark a website so that when other browsers like Internet Explorer sees the page, will consider the page as unknown site.

If the user has a default browser, pages downloaded by Google chrome will be launched using the same default browser. This page will be allowed to view like any other web page, by bypassing the security protection that is integrated in the site. This will help an attack to be successful as well. This case is seen in many browsers, but chrome has successfully implemented their security policy 101. Chrome has provided a facility, wherein the browser will ask for confirmation before downloading the pages.

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Google has introduced Google chrome to make web browsing easier, simpler and faster for the users of chrome. Hence they have mixed the features from various browsers and removed their faults to make a quality browser for the users. When they have modified all the existing features available in the currently available browsers, they have made security too special and unique in chrome.
 
Google uses the blacklists as the first precaution to prevent their users from accessing malicious pages. The blacklists will have the lists of all existing malicious websites, which users are advised to stay away from. Google chrome updates the blacklists constantly to ensure the security of their customers. 
There is the principle of least privilege which will act as a protected mode, that doesn’t allow users to read or write from areas that are forbidden.

Another security step taken by Google chrome is the incognito mode in which the browsing history will not be saved by the browser or the cookies. This gives users a chance to browse secretly, with their browsing details not being exposed to others who use the same account. At the same time, they can use different modes for accessing internet.

Though there is the facility to automatically download pages to the users’ desktop, Google chrome is so designed to change this setting so that, users need not use this, when they are not in need of this feature.

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