Internet Security
Most of the time I use the internet to research stories, look up movies or stalk… errm, I mean keep in contact with friends using social media. If I’m feeling particularly exciting I might check out a YouTube video of a cat playing the piano or a panda sneezing.
My computer, on the other hand, is busy running around extorting people as part of an organised crime gang or working as a double agent for foreign governments. And in its down time it hires itself out as a mercenary.
And there is a good chance yours is doing this too.
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IF you’ve been following the tech media this week, you’ll know that Google is in hot water over one of the most serious privacy breaches in its history.
You’ll likely have heard that Google launched a new product, called Google Buzz, that was meant to create a social network out of its email users.
And that major privacy flaws in the product led to abusive men getting access to the details of their ex wives, political activists finding their contacts made public for investigators to peruse and journalists having their sources “outed”. I’m one of those journalists.
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A S says:
Am I the only one seeing the b.s in this article? The content of this article directly contradicts the headline. This writer is just one more guy trying to get some publicity out of this issue. If you actually read this article, this is what it says: “I am relatively… Read more »
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stephen says:
The difference between Microsoft and Google is that they both want to exploit you (hey this is capitalism, right?) but only Microsoft seems compelled to torture you along the way. Surely the whole world knows that they only used ‘Don’t Be Evil’ because ‘Don’t Be Microsoft’ would have led to… Read more »
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