Google Groups own social networking and their Groups+ version of
Usenet Newsgroups that includes all sorts of worthless crap besides
efficient text content, as such probably overwhelmed their own multi-
terabyte servers, not to mention the entire world of Usenet related
servers that couldn’t possibly keep up.
It’s simply unadulterated crap of purely greedy, childish and selfish
stupidity that’s most likely what’s killing the functionality of
Usenet/newsgroups. It should have been easy for team Google to kill,
exclude or at least divert the likes of “Dual-Duality” and others like
“NewzBin2” from loading their gigabytes and even terabytes of pirated
and/or even of their own copyrighted video and music sharing material
into Usenet/newsgroup channels, as though it’s a free-for-all public
funded service, and you can’t tell me that team Google had no idea as
to the consequences of their own actions.
Dual-Duality on Usenet | Dual-Duality
www.dual-duality.org/blog/
“We're going to start uploading all our releases to usenet from here
on out, beginning with our most active releases and followed by our
completed projects. NZB files will be made available on the download
page. ...”
NewzBin2 is yet another heavy duty violator that was allowed to trash
Usenet.
http://www.newzbin.com/
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Then we have this little tidbit:
http://letstell.com/the-war-is-on/
Google, the service so great it became a verb, can now add security
risk to its roster of unintended results. The search site played
inadvertent host to remotely accessed Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) systems in a Black Hat conference demo led by
FusionX's Tom Parker. The security company CTO walked attendees
through the steps required to gain control of worldwide utility
infrastructure -- power plants, for one -- but stopped short of
actually engaging the vulnerable networks. Using a string of code,
unique to a Programmable Logic Controller (the computers behind
amusement park rides and assembly lines) Parker was able to pull up a
water treatment facility's RTU pump, and even found its disaster-
welcoming "1234" password -- all through a Google search. Shaking your
head in disbelief? We agree, but Parker reassured the crowd these
types of outside attacks require a substantial amount of effort and
coordination, and "would be extremely challenging to pull off." Panic
attack worn off yet? Good, now redirect those fears to the imminent
day of robot-helmed reckoning.
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It’s kind of a wonder that Usenet has lasted this long. If I were in
charge of Google groups there’d be lots of heads rolling, and
otherwise bounties placed on the heads of outsiders violating Usenet/
newsgroup bandwidth usage, such as upon those posting images or other
bandwidth hogging files without moral limitations nor respect for
others of any kind.