You're most welcome, Jaz. In the words of Crosby, Stills & Nash, "Paranoia
strikes deep"
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Scott
> Jez, feeling better
>
> On 16 February 2015 at 16:59, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > All this paranoia about Google I find to be highly amusing--from those
> > using Windows (and even more so--older versions of Windows) and, to a
> > lesser extent, OS/X. There's nothing that Google will get from your use
> of
> > Chrome or other Google product that doesn't already leak or get easily
> > hacked from Windows itself, or wasn't often requested by--and almost just
> > as often provided voluntarily to--Apple.
> >
> > Much of the data collected is public record, anyway, and was always
> > available to anyone interested enough to find out. It required only a
> trip
> > to the library or appropriate government office. Or as anyone who ever
> had
> > a mail subscription to a magazine quickly found out, purchase of a
> mailing
> > list. I knew how to use the reverse phone number look-up directory
> > available at my local (and tiny!) public library by the time I was in
> > middle school.
> >
> > At least Google are quite straight-forward about what information they
> > collect, and alone among the three, provide a means of extracting most
> all
> > of your data that may be stored with them should you desire to do so, via
> > their Data Liberation feature.
> >
> > Google has even decided publish to details of security holes left
> > un-patched for more than 90 days by OS vendors, including itself. A move
> > which arguably provides at least a means for end-users to be aware that
> > there is an issue that could affect them. This elicited howls from both
> > Microsoft and Apple recently when they couldn't manage (or didn't care)
> to
> > fix their issues in time.
> >
> > I'd rather deal with an organization that at least makes some attempt to
> be
> > honest and somewhat open about their intentions and the potential
> pitfalls
> > of use, rather than find out, as a bunch of celebrities recently did,
> that
> > my very personal data which I had "safely stored in iCloud" was easily
> > "liberated" by hackers.
> >
> > None of these companies or their on-line solutions are even close to
> > perfect. But as long as end-users prefer to pay little to nothing for the
> > services available, they are going to have to reconcile the fact that
> those
> > companies must monetize those services in some fashion. One can always do
> > as I have often done in filling in so-called "required" information: just
> > flat-out lie. The worst that you risk by so doing is loss of a free
> > account. Make up names, addresses, phone numbers, whatever. Use
> throw-away
> > email accounts. Consider using Tor or other means of obfuscation.
> >
> > I'd venture that for some 80+ percent of users that it won't help anyway,
> > because in my experience over decades is that most of them have such
> > utterly useless passwords or other account security (even when there is
> > means provided for better by the vendor!) as to be quite easily
> compromised
> > anyway.
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > >> Google does all the updates for me.
> > > >
> > > >How comforting!
> > > >
> > >
> > > How absolutely gut-wrenching scary!
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> > > - Hunter S. Thompson
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