[OT] Google Buzz: Privacy problem for GMail users
Craig
> Google Buzz managed to completely overstep the bounds of personal
> privacy.
>
> When launched, Buzz automatically makes you a follower of the people
> you contact and chat with most frequently via Gmail. But the rub is
> this � anyone who follows you can see all the people you follow.
>
> So, imagine you've been looking for a new job and you've been
> e-mailing Marcie at the new company with your resume and references
> and whatnot. If Buzz makes you a follower of Marcie, all your friends
> from your current job who automatically follow you can see you've
> been chatting with the enemy. Now imagine this situation expanded to
> the even more risky (and potentially risque) realm of personal and
> romantic relationships. Yeah, you're getting the picture.
>
> You can go into Buzz and selectively follow/unfollow certain people
> to avoid this kind of incident, but the best evasive maneuver is to
> scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click "Turn off Buzz."
<http://consumerist.com/2010/02/google-buzz-makes-private-contact-info-public.html>
hth,
--
-Craig
za kAT
> If you have a GMail account, you may wanna take a peek at this:
>
>> Google Buzz managed to completely overstep the bounds of personal
>> privacy.
>>
>> When launched, Buzz automatically makes you a follower of the people
>> you contact and chat with most frequently via Gmail. But the rub is
>> this 嚙碼 anyone who follows you can see all the people you follow.
"Why go to a product that isolates you from
the huge majority of the computing world" :)
Wait up! Don't Google use Linux?
Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:
>If you have a GMail account, you may wanna take a peek at this:
>
(snip)
><http://consumerist.com/2010/02/google-buzz-makes-private-contact-info-public.html>
>
>hth,
That's what it is for and the reason why I use Buzz. It is a good way
to spread information about my products.
I don't use gmail for anything that I want to keep private.
Steve
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Stephen Wolstenholme
<za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote:
>Wait up! Don't Google use Linux?
What has Google got to with Linux?
za kAT
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:34:51 +0000, za kAT
> <za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Wait up! Don't Google use Linux?
>
> What has Google got to with Linux?
>
Quite a lot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
Mike Easter
> za kAT
>> Wait up! Don't Google use Linux?
>
> What has Google got to with Linux?
Google internally likes to use Goobuntu at employee workstations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
http://google.about.com/od/g/g/goobuntudef.htm
Earlier this caused some confusion about google's intentions about what
it was going to 'do about' an OS. What the employees use isn't the same
as what google is 'doing' with development. The goobuntu is just a
mildly modded Ub and google feeds a little back to the ub repos.
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Mike Easter
troppo
news:rme8n5hra892ou8f9...@4ax.com:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:24:16 -0800, Craig <netbu...@REMOVEgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>If you have a GMail account, you may wanna take a peek at this:
>>
>
> (snip)
>
>><http://consumerist.com/2010/02/google-buzz-makes-private-contact-info-
>>public.html>
>>
>>hth,
>
> That's what it is for and the reason why I use Buzz. It is a good way
> to spread information about my products.
>
> I don't use gmail for anything that I want to keep private.
>
> Steve
I had to switch from Basic HTML to Standard in GMail to find this buzz
thing. Does that mean it only works in standard? Or (more likely) you don't
know about it in Basic :-(
Stephen Wolstenholme
<za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:20:38 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:34:51 +0000, za kAT
>> <za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Wait up! Don't Google use Linux?
>>
>> What has Google got to with Linux?
>>
>
>Quite a lot
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
I see. I thought you were suggesting that the OP used Linux rather
than Google but you really saying that Google use Linux.
za kAT
> I see. I thought you were suggesting that the OP used Linux rather
> than Google but you really saying that Google use Linux.
Er.. na. I was just being sarky. Perhaps you've missed it Steve, but our
friend Bottom has been running a campaign against Linux. This was a quote
from him.
"Why go to a product that isolates you from
the huge majority of the computing world"
Bear Bottoms
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:24:16 -0800, Craig <netbu...@REMOVEgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>If you have a GMail account, you may wanna take a peek at this:
>>
>
> (snip)
>
>><http://consumerist.com/2010/02/google-buzz-makes-private-contact-info-
>>public.html>
>>
>>hth,
>
> That's what it is for and the reason why I use Buzz. It is a good way
> to spread information about my products.
>
> I don't use gmail for anything that I want to keep private.
>
> Steve
>
Take that one huge step forward and don't use the Internet for anything
you want to keep private. Also, don't connect a computer that contains
anything you want to keep private to the Internet. Very simple.
--
Bear Bottoms
Owner of Freeware website: http://bearware.info
Stephen Wolstenholme
<za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:06:50 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>
>> I see. I thought you were suggesting that the OP used Linux rather
>> than Google but you really saying that Google use Linux.
>
>Er.. na. I was just being sarky. Perhaps you've missed it Steve, but our
>friend Bottom has been running a campaign against Linux. This was a quote
>from him.
>
I'm not a Linux fan either so your sarcasm went over my head.
Stephen Wolstenholme
The only things I want to keep private do not have interfaces to
connect to the Internet or a computer.
za kAT
> Take that one huge step forward and don't use the Internet for anything
> you want to keep private. Also, don't connect a computer that contains
> anything you want to keep private to the Internet. Very simple.
Thx, and let's take that one more /huge/ step forward
...and /never/ forget to tuck your dick well away /before/ you pull the
zipper on yer kecks.
Bear Bottoms
>>Take that one huge step forward and don't use the Internet for anything
>>you want to keep private. Also, don't connect a computer that contains
>>anything you want to keep private to the Internet. Very simple.
>
> The only things I want to keep private do not have interfaces to
> connect to the Internet or a computer.
>
Very smart Steve. And no, you do/should not need to expound on what you
wish to keep private :)
Bear Bottoms
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:49:52 +0000, za kAT
> <za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:06:50 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>>
>>> I see. I thought you were suggesting that the OP used Linux rather
>>> than Google but you really saying that Google use Linux.
>>
>>Er.. na. I was just being sarky. Perhaps you've missed it Steve, but
>>our friend Bottom has been running a campaign against Linux. This was
>>a quote from him.
>>
>
> I'm not a Linux fan either so your sarcasm went over my head.
>
> Steve
>
I don't have anything against Linux. It just simply isn't as good an
operating system as Windows, all things considered. That is why I am not
a fan of Linux either.
What I dislike is having Linux rammed down my throat with dishonest
representation that it is better than Windows. The assault on Windows by
Linux fans is what started this discussion.
They would be better served promoting Linux on it's own
points...honestly, rather than the negative approach of trying to tear
down a superior product with irrational dishonest argument.
Linux is a good free alternative for some. It is not better because
there are definitely limitations when compared to Windows. There is
virtually nothing you can do in Linux, that you can't do in Windows, and
there is much you can't do in Linux that you can do in Windows. At this
time, there is no comparison.
glorieux
If anyone is stupid enough to activate a Google spy program such as
this...well, you get what you paid for.
glorieux
Daniel Mandic
> Linux is a good free alternative for some. It is not better because
> there are definitely limitations when compared to Windows. There is
> virtually nothing you can do in Linux, that you can't do in Windows,
> and there is much you can't do in Linux that you can do in Windows.
> At this time, there is no comparison.
Off course...
I have also my Debian multi-boot (lilo) to MS Windows NT.
But what you can't have for linux, is almost unneccessary...
It's not a bad system for intel based chipsets and their derivatives.
And does have, some freeware better (faster) than on Windows, IMHO!
(e.g. KStars)
--
Daniel Mandic
Bear Bottoms
$91ce...@newsreader04.highway.telekom.at:
All of my hardware is considered necessary to me. Much of it will not
work with Linux.
za kAT
> What I dislike is having Linux rammed down my throat with dishonest
> representation that it is better than Windows. The assault on Windows by
> Linux fans is what started this discussion.
You are the one being dishonest. Everybody knows my POV isn't pro one or
the other. I use many OS's. Hence I want to talk about them all. Sorry if
you can't, because you don't have the experience, but you put yourself in
the ivory tower, when you simply don't have the knowledge to defend
yourself, and that's why you keep getting shot down. Tough.
Luke
bearbo...@gmai.com says...
>
>
>Stephen Wolstenholme <st...@tropheus.demon.co.uk> wrote in
>news:th79n5dm8f2rohlmd...@4ax.com:
>
>>>Take that one huge step forward and don't use the Internet for anything
>>>you want to keep private. Also, don't connect a computer that contains
>>>anything you want to keep private to the Internet. Very simple.
>>
>> The only things I want to keep private do not have interfaces to
>> connect to the Internet or a computer.
>>
>
>Very smart Steve. And no, you do/should not need to expound on what you
>wish to keep private :)
>
Eventually the use of personal data will get this bad:
http://patriotupdate.com/stories/read/2724/Parody-Video-Thank-God-its-not
-this-hard-to-order-pizza-yet
Daniel Mandic
> All of my hardware is considered necessary to me. Much of it will not
> work with Linux.
Hi Bear!
No, I meant unnecessary stuff like browser bloatings and other things
"only" available for Windows. However, a MSN Messenger clone is
available for AMIGA, for example :). Linux is surely better in cloning
thought-to-be-only Windows services. You might not miss too much, but
it's tricky to setup linux.
The real problem is more likely, that the sentence (Copyright by
Daniel) "Any Windows user is a good user" refrains linux, becoming an
OS for the masses.
A friend of mine does all his html-css work on linux. He is having Win
too, to look how his work looks on IE. And, to play Flight-Simulator
plus online extensions (VAIO, Maps....) ;-)
--
Daniel Mandic
Bear Bottoms
$91ce...@newsreader03.highway.telekom.at:
I used Ubuntu for better than a year on another laptop. That I had to go
to my Windows laptop to do many of the things I wanted to do was enough
to change my mind. And yes, MS Flt Simulator is one of those things. That
other laptop is still there, collecting dust.
Gordon Darling
> I used Ubuntu for better than a year on another laptop.
You're lying again.
Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Bear Bottoms wrote:
> I used Ubuntu for better than a year
You're a liar.