Ok, if you don't know, the US government is subpoenaing all the major search engines (msn, yahoo, google, ect.) for logs of their searches, cookie records, ect. Microsoft and yahoo has handed them over no questions asked. Google however is puting up a fight, and protecting it's users privacy in the first place. First off, the government doesn't have a right (then again they say they have whatever rights they feel like anyway) to what people are searching, second off, what would they do with the information? In addition to that, they are also subpoenaing googles gmail records as well, now I may be a little conservative here, but even though I don't use gmail, I wouldn't like the government just freely going through my email just because it says it has the right to now. Google being the strong and sensible company that it is is also saying no to that as well.
HERE'S WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP
Now the government is asking for 1 million search entries randomly sampled from a weeks period after the subpoena is won. What we can do for that is to flood google with worthless, meaningless searches that are in no way incriminating to anyone with the searches or the results. What I suggest is that if it is one, we all run a script from our computers which will put in fake searches oh say 1000 times or so each. I have devised a script so far, but need some help on it.
I downloaded a free program called nircmd and put it in the same file as the bat file. the bat file I have so far is this.
cd..
cd program files
cd internet explorer
iexplore
http://www.google.com/search?q=jesus
cd..
cd..
cd jesus
nircmd.exe win close class "IEFrame"
The folder is named jesus and is in the root of my drive, hence all the cd in it. It opens it fine, only problem is the bat file just stops after it opens ie, and doesn't get to the part where it closes the ie windows. I plan on having this loop like 1000 times after fixing this bug. Any help and support is much appreciated, remember it's for your privacy too.