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If someone asks to borrow your cell phone, or you leave it unattended, beware!
Unless you actually watch them use it, they may be secretly grabbing every piece of your information on the device, even deleted messages. If you leave your phone sitting on your desk, or in the center console of your car while the valet parks it, then you and everyone in your contacts list may be at risk, to say nothing of confidential e-mails, spread sheets, or other information. And of course, if you do not want your spouse to see who you are chatting with on your phone, you might want to use extra caution.
We know about Chrome now but what about GoogleUpdate.exe? This guy is not open sourced.Couldn't have said it better myself. People forget that this thing is scheduled to run when idle.
Google is against me because I cannot find an info what data this app sends
This makes me wonder:
HKCU\Software\Google\Update\UsageStats\-fenixproductions (September 04, 2008, 05:29 AM)
And here we go again... oh hell how I hate there dudes who think Firefox have done all those things first and alone... eh... how about opening your eyes and look even futher.... Alot of those "firefox innovations" are actually been first in Opera and then copypasted to Firefox as new innovations... sounds like Microsoft to me in this scenario... and when I have to compare Firefox to Microsoft, things are getting pretty ugly...You seem to be skipping a key difference. The only real part of Firefox Mozilla has claimed to be innovative is the addon system. It is via this mechanism that the Firefox community develop functionality for Firefox that may mimic that found in another browser, and even then, most often the developer will highlight the fact that the feature he/she has added is found in another browser. When Microsoft develop a browser that even remotely encourages community development, then come back and make your case.-simakuutio (September 03, 2008, 11:49 PM)
Zridling,Certainly couldn't have said it any better myself.
Google is singled out because Google has become a data octopus. Your bank knows your bank records, they do not know what contacts you have on your phone or what your plan is next week. Your phone company may know your calls and contacts but they do not know about your purchasing history or what you watch on youtube. Now every company has only one side of the picture. On the other hand Google has many sides of the picture by search, email, map,health records, google checkout, book search, calendar, youtube, driving directions, you name it. It is conducting masssive data mining to figure out who you are and what you might be interested in to sell you more ads. That is very very legitimate concern aand noone should be this powerful. Sooner or later Google will abuse its power like every powerful entity in the world or world history. When it comes to for profit entities, abuse will be unquestionable result especially when we have corrupt politicians, legalized bribing(lobbies), and every kinds of social-national scares and paranoias(boogey man will get you that is why we shared your info to save you and your privacy bullsh$t)-kartal (September 03, 2008, 07:43 PM)
Lots of folks had concerns about Gmail for a while, but now just about everyone has an account.Where does everyone get the impression that past injustices that go unpunished warrant further misplaced trust?-zridling (September 03, 2008, 06:59 PM)
Me either, thanks! Also not sure if i mentioned it yet, but uninstalling chrome does not uninstall the Google Updater, you have to manually remove it from local appdata (same install location as Chrome itself.2Darwin
Be sure to cleanup completely, especially:
HKCU\Software\Google\Update\UsageStats\-fenixproductions (September 03, 2008, 05:45 PM)
Thanks for the heads up - I didn't know about that one. My comfort level is not improved by seeing the kinds of info that that contained. I should have read it more clearly and written some of it down before deleting, but didn't... Stuff that I remember includes "User has UAC enabled"-Darwin (September 03, 2008, 05:49 PM)
It can be fixed by disabling autocompleter in options:IMO there is no "fix" for this short of a recompile without Google spy code.
http://coderrr.wordp...orse-than-you-think/-urlwolf (September 03, 2008, 05:22 PM)
I love this comment though:ROFL!Chrome is, practically, a brilliant new operating system.-urlwolf (September 03, 2008, 05:29 PM)
Although it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards, one billion other cards, etc.) it's still not necessarily common knowledge, and it sounds like the major credit card companies want to keep it that way -- according to Adam Savage, Mythbusters was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations but was shut down by lawyers from "American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... [who] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode." Since Discovery is an ad-supported channel, it's not surprising that it backed down, but we'd say that the credit card industry would be far better served spending money on actually improving security rather than lawyering up and trying to keep consumers in the dark.
I am trying to warn people about Google`s shady privacy practices and data mining here as frequently as possible.Good man, keep it up.-kartal (September 03, 2008, 08:29 AM)
