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Wow, Google wants your nameserver.
xor
Is this a bad idea or what?
Wow, Google wants your nameserver.
xor
Is this a bad idea or what?
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Last edited by xor; December 9, 2009, 16:29.Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos. -
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As long as their philosophy is "do no evil" what could possibly go wrong?Originally posted by xor View PostA third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one. -
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Sounds like "Big Brother" has found one more way to keep tabs on our behavior."Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? " - Clifford StollComment
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From my PLUG List:
"I was thinking more along the lines of "One cache to rule them all, one cache to find them. One cache to keep them all, and in the darkness BIND them.""
--Matt
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xorJust because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.Comment
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well ask yourself what they do with your search history, now think about what they will do with your name resolution history....if you're paranoid that is :DOriginally posted by xor View PostNetwork Jesus died for your SYNComment
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No reason to be paranoid really. According to Eric Schmidt, you shouldn't have anything to hide, and if you do, you should be ashamed of yourself.Originally posted by bjaming View PostA third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.Comment
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Eric Schmidt called me a miscreant, my feelings are hurt. :
xor
Actually what really vexes me the most is the way Google hypes it to everyone. We are making the Internet better for the world. When actually they are not. In the short term it seems fine, not much different than what OpenDNS does. In the long term companies see Google doing free dns, and suddenly see away to save money. These companies start telling their subscribers to use Google DNS, rather than offer their own. Just when I was leaving the university, free mail from Google was too much of a temptation for them. Why should we provide electronic mail services to students, when Google will do it for free. Slowly the companies that provide services, and we as subscribers give up more, and more control to Google. Where will it all end up?Last edited by xor; December 9, 2009, 20:06.Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.Comment
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Somehow I picture it ending up with Eric Schmidt sitting atop a large pile of money, sipping wine from a human skull... And sounding like the devil from Legend for some reason.Originally posted by xor View Post
Those privacy conscious enough to avoid Google's existing services will see no need to use this one any more than they do Gmail or Google Maps. I hold by the sentiment that nothing is free, every one of Google's services come at the cost of the data they collect from their usage. This will be no different. and much like how Gmail is still not the most widely used service in a corporate environment, I think the same will hold true here. In reality, Google's main demographic is the consumer, I honestly don't see much of a shift in power in this."You have cubed asscheeks?"... "Do you not?"Comment
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I would agree with this, but I don't think that Eric Schmidt is nearly as cool or suave as Tim Curry is. I think of him more as Grima Wormtongue.Originally posted by sintax_error View PostA third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.Comment
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