Google Busted
Secure Your Networks!
Sunday, May 16, 2010 by DrJBHL | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Well, well.... "It was all a mistake...We never used the data....It was just a small line of code...". Yeah.
Folks....Secure your Networks!
As Google itself put it:
"The engineering team at Google works hard to earn your trust," Google said. "And we are acutely aware that we failed badly here."
Doc says:
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Reply #2 Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:54 AM
Philly, I sure as hell don't. As far as I know MS, Yahoo, etc. don't have trucks going around checking out our home/office networks.
Reply #3 Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:31 AM
I hightlighted those words because none of us do. Don't get me wrong, I not saying that the other folks collect information with as much zeal as Google is believed to.
All of this reminds me a of a bedtime story, 'Grandmother, what big eyes you have, all the better to see you my dear", just saying.
Reply #4 Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:39 AM
And I agree. To believe those huge data farms are filled only by Google and the government would be...well, naive. I'm sure private corporations and nosy neighbors do it as well.
Reply #5 Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:54 AM
All the more reason to secure your wireless network in the first place.
Reply #8 Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:13 PM
If we knew the truth about how much the government knew about us, we'd freak! Everybody wants information on everybody else, it's been going on for a long time now. I quit Facebook because they can get information from people's computers that have a Facebook accounts. Knowledge is power! I can't believe I just said that! 
Reply #9 Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:42 PM
It's sad that we live in fear of them. It's sad anyone lives in fear of others. A friend told me the other day that in fact, we surround them. Well, then...why does it feel just the opposite? Fear....of their police/army/agents...they multiply as we cannot seem to unite and they know very well how to divert and divide us, and then bemoan the division and polarity they create. What consummate hypocrisy.
Reply #10 Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:56 PM
It's bad enough when individual countries/governments collect information on thier citizens, I know, some of it is for usefull purposes. What is really scary is when corporations start collecting information on us.
Reply #11 Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:07 PM
George Orwell was correct !!!
Someday they won't let you, so now you must agree
The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
(David Bowie 1974 Diamond Dogs album)
Reply #12 Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:15 PM
NA...funny you should write about that (1984), WebGizmos and I were saying the same thing.
Reply #13 Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:20 PM
Great minds think alike...... What happened to us???? 
Reply #14 Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:53 PM
Sounds criminal to me. Don't see why Google should be exempt.
Reply #15 Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:40 PM
Quoting DrJBHL, reply 12NA...funny you should write about that (1984), WebGizmos and I were saying the same thing.
Great minds think alike...... What happened to us????
You're improving...still a ways to go, but improving. 
And right you are, Dave. 
Reply #17 Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:39 PM
Now that you explained that Fuzzy everything is much clearer. 
Reply #18 Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:49 PM
i think china has the right idea - ban google, let them go bankrupt and put the ceo in jail - oh and let us spy on him lol
Reply #19 Monday, May 17, 2010 6:16 AM
Please. Move to China, if they'll have you, and then you'll be begging for Google and all their "privacy pirating". Like someone up top said before, if you only knew what other companies/corporations/governments collected on you, you'd be really scared/pissed. Google is nothing. It's a good diversion though...
Reply #20 Monday, May 17, 2010 11:35 AM
i think china has the right idea - ban google
Please. Move to China, if they'll have you, and then you'll be begging for Google and all their "privacy pirating". Like someone up top said before, if you only knew what other companies/corporations/governments collected on you, you'd be really scared/pissed. Google is nothing. It's a good diversion though...
if china wld have me? they wld love 2 have me am sure. as for google, good riddance to bad rubbish and to be honest i expect my government to monitor stuff. i dont have an issue with that but i do have issues with google. a corporation that ignores its customers, never responds to enquiries and yet is happy to take my money
what china does in china is its own business and if it wants 2 censor google etc then fair enough. i am not deluded about all this democracy crap and why some nations feel they have 2 export it
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Reply #1 Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:44 AM
The internet being what is is, Google is the one that is being caught doing this stuff, how many others are doing the same thing that we are not aware of?
Think about that for awhile and see how safe you feel.