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by anxiousest 13y ago
I don't get the alarmist tone of that piece: it's very preliminary, they are consulting with interested parties, building an opt out mechanism. Oh and Apple already deployed an identical ad id a while ago.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
This has nothing to do with Google's "business model", search is about relevance and despite the practices of these sites, I'm sure you can see how their content might be relevant and interesting to visitors. Those who p
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by anxiousest 13y ago
First of all let's not confuse the issues here, the one in question is about tagging visitors with cookies, and the one you link to is a terrible decision by a judge about the nature of data processing in the cloud with the potential t
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by anxiousest 13y ago
It's why the word Incognito in Chrome for iOS has an asterisk next to it: "On Chrome for iOS, due to platform limitation regular and incognito* tabs share HTML5 local storage, which is typically used by sites to store files on you
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by anxiousest 13y ago
SELinux default policies are usually written per distribution, by their maintainers. It's widely used and peer reviewed (Fedora, Red Hat) I'd trust it over any less involved attempt at emulating it.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
The data seems a bit dated. RSS functionality for example had since been restored: http://searchengineland.com/google-quietly-brings-back-rss-f...
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by anxiousest 13y ago
No. For the same grammatical reasons and for the more important fact that they don't sell data or information, they sell ad placement that get populated with relevant ads determined by analysing said data. Advertisers don't buy th
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Ads in paid Google Apps are subject to admin control to whether enable them or not. Also technically speaking "prostitution" is a human only trait.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
One: he's not just a "top guy at Google" he's Vint "I invented the internet" Cerf. Two: the headline is highly paraphrased, which I guess you know since you've read the whole thing. Also sociologically spe
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Publishing a transparency report is an excellent step and it doesn't deserve this sort of comment. Government surveillance is a policy issue first and foremost, concentrating on consumer tech companies is but an attention seeking techn
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Perhaps, I doubt the change was as dramatic though, considering it's not just the app itself that underwent transformation but also browsers and the web platform as a whole. But then again we're talking about spreadsheet software.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Google Sheets has changed quite a bit over those "2 to 3 years", being a web app and all, Excel hasn't. I suggest taking second glance.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
It was a joke.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
I try to ignore trolls but some comments make me want to self harm.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
How exactly is fracturing the Internet and stopping the free flow of information will make it "stronger"? any sort of amplified indignation about the NSA is a red herring, Brazil had that plan for a long time and now and they are
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Instant Extended API in chrome://flags
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by anxiousest 13y ago
They've been doing that on mobile Chrome for a while. It makes perfect sense on mobile, saving vertical space and whatnot, seems alright on the desktop as well. Notice the mic icon to the right.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Not to be pedantic but "PRISM" is a code name for a specific program, and it's not the one that does in-transit interception. That would be XKeyscore.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
'Blamed and shamed'?! I don't even think it's an issue, your wifi password isn't that of your bank account. They store your emails unencrypted for crying out loud, wifi passwords pale in comparison. It's a non
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Not sure what the author is after here. I mean he's not breaking any news, he admits as much, he also links to some of the articles that were published weeks ago that do a better job of discussing the security/convenience trade of
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Because it's unusual for VC firms to invest in startups?
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Cloud Endpoints is worth considering: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/endpoints/
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by anxiousest 13y ago
I'm not suggesting it's impossible, I'm just saying that it's much more difficult to hide stuff in OSS thus less likely. It's the closed source stuff you ought to be more suspicious of.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Its source code is available for audit and scrutiny, so yeah. If you're looking to spread FUD do that to the closed source stuff.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
That doesn't mean this development is meaningless and should be dismissed, it mitigates real concerns. As for the human element, that is probably the hardest to defend against but enacting sound engineering solutions is more than half
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by anxiousest 13y ago
They're not forcing you. You can give them that or you might consider the benefits not worth it and you won't, it's not an NSA type issue.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
Their business - like that of most tech companies - is built on data (so is every business to some degree) they can't forgo data, that is stupid. If the NSA is your main concern then it's government policy you want to be changed,
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by anxiousest 13y ago
I assume you mean encrypting data at rest since this development takes care of all in transit encryption, well, because of ads, analytics, other predictive data intensive services like "Google Now" etc.
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by anxiousest 13y ago
It's a stupid question. They want webmail services (nay all cloud services) to cease automatically processing data they store. It's nonsense, that is what these services are all about, they want them to become useless, basically d
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by anxiousest 13y ago
What is it 2004?! of course it's legal, same as "scanning" mail content to identify spam or enable full text search. This lawsuit is ridiculous, it's either a money making scam or a PR stunt or both.

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