GOOGLE HAS A COPY OF YOUR COMPUTER'S CONTENTS ARCHIVED...

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GOOGLE HAS A COPY OF YOUR COMPUTER'S CONTENTS ARCHIVED...

Post by Rabbi Dali Rick » Mon May 17, 2010 8:05 pm

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If you have a computer connected to Wi-fi google has made a copy of all the contents on your computer. They have been caught in a big wi-fi data mining operation.




http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/254ff5b6-61e2 ... ab49a.html




Hope you didn't have anything on there you didn't want anybody to see.


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Post by Trishntek » Mon May 17, 2010 8:17 pm

Well it has been widely reported that the right to privacy is history.
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Post by AntiM » Mon May 17, 2010 8:24 pm

They say not if the network was password protected.

Besides, those nekkid pictures would be too scary to use as porn and I don't give a crap about blackmail.

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Post by bm_cricket » Mon May 17, 2010 8:24 pm

People who don't understand computer technology talking about it make me laugh. All out belly laugh.

Go back to wearing your tinfoil hat.
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Post by DVD Burner » Mon May 17, 2010 8:29 pm

DOOD, if you are password protected you dont have anything to worry about with the Google vans.

they are not that interested in other peoples shit.

Not only that, if they or anyone REALLY wanted to get into your shit, it would not be a problem.
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Post by Trishntek » Mon May 17, 2010 8:30 pm

bm_cricket wrote:People who don't understand computer technology talking about it make me laugh. All out belly laugh.

Go back to wearing your tinfoil hat.
Could you fill us in clip note style?
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Post by DVD Burner » Mon May 17, 2010 8:31 pm

Always nice to see a Rabbi thread. :lol:
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Post by Rabbi Dali Rick » Mon May 17, 2010 8:36 pm

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bm_cricket wrote:People who don't understand computer technology talking about it make me laugh. All out belly laugh.

Go back to wearing your tinfoil hat.




Well, Yeah....


and people who don't understand sentence structure, makes me vibrate. An all out dildo vibrate.



See dick, See dick write, don't write like a dick...

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Re: ..... Wait Until The Train Comes To A Complete Stop ....

Post by bm_cricket » Mon May 17, 2010 9:01 pm

Rabbi Dali Rick wrote: See dick, See dick write, don't write like a dick...
Are you going to call me on syntax on ePlaya? You realize this is the internet? Right? The fact I bothered to spell in the same language the whole way through and use punctuation should leave you squirming in your pants with joy. Personally I get hot and bothered when someone who text messages me uses complete sentences. These modern times we live in.

But seriously folks... If Google wanted your data it would simply take it and you'd never know about it. Thankfully they don't give a rats ass about your collection of porn videos or pirated MP3s.
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Re: ..... Wait Until The Train Comes To A Complete Stop ....

Post by Ranger Genius » Mon May 17, 2010 11:14 pm

Rabbi Dali Rick wrote:




Well, Yeah....


and people who don't understand sentence structure, makes me vibrate. An all out dildo vibrate.



See dick, See dick write, don't write like a dick...

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You might want to take a look at your own structure and syntax there. "People, makes me vibrate?"
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Re: ..... Wait Until The Train Comes To A Complete Stop ....

Post by bm_cricket » Mon May 17, 2010 11:32 pm

Ranger Genius wrote: You might want to take a look at your own structure and syntax there. "People, makes me vibrate?"
Not to sound self centered or anything but I think he's mocking me. :-) I took liberties with the English language he didn't approve of.

I think? I corrected my typo seconds after making it yet he still saw the original posting over an hour later. I think there is a glitch in ePlaya.



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Post by DVD Burner » Mon May 17, 2010 11:42 pm

Rabbi Dali Rick wrote:

Well, Yeah....


and people who don't understand sentence structure, makes me vibrate. An all out dildo vibrate.



See dick, See dick write, don't write like a dick...

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Post by geekster » Mon May 17, 2010 11:59 pm

As far as I know, what they were doing was looking for open access points so they could map various hotspots so if someone needed a place to connect and were in a city or part of town strange to them, they could look on the map and find an open access point near them.

Trouble is, a lot of these access points are in people's homes and they have not bothered to secure them. They don't have an archive of your computer but they probably have a (very) brief snapshot of any open traffic that happened to be emitted from your wireless access point at the moment the car was within range.

It is sort of like having all your windows open and shouting all day, then chastising someone walking up the sidewalk for overhearing.

Google does a LOT more nefarious stuff than this, jeez.

Ever wonder why if you go to a few car manufacturer sites you start seeing car ads every time you visit a website with google ads?

I did a google search the other day for scsi disk drives and now I see the same scsi disk ad no matter what site I go to and probably will for another week or so.

Google does basically exactly what Gator/Claria was so hated for doing. It is called "behavioral marketing". And it works.
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Post by gyre » Tue May 18, 2010 4:38 am

Doesn't work because when they went to flash motion ads, they pissed me off and I went to adblockplus, and the machine gained speed back.
Also if you do enough searches, you can break their modeling software.

Also had adbegone recommended.

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Post by j_cavera » Tue May 18, 2010 8:40 am

Now you got me thinking... I'm going to start searching for some really strange stuff just to see what ads I get back.

clothing for transvestite mongooses (mongeese?)
how to deflate a bananna
spring-loaded bookshelves

On second thought, I'd probably get the FBI after me.

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Post by Fire_Moose » Tue May 18, 2010 8:44 am

I trust Google with my shit
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Post by ygmir » Tue May 18, 2010 9:08 am

j_cavera wrote:Now you got me thinking... I'm going to start searching for some really strange stuff just to see what ads I get back.

clothing for transvestite mongooses (mongeese?)
how to deflate a bananna
spring-loaded bookshelves

On second thought, I'd probably get the FBI after me.

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Post by Rabbi Dali Rick » Tue May 18, 2010 10:35 am

Just so you know, I do everything on the internet irreverently tongue and cheek, even the original post...




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Post by Rabbi Dali Rick » Tue May 18, 2010 10:44 am

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As far as I know, what they were doing was looking for open access points so they could map various hotspots so if someone needed a place to connect and were in a city or part of town strange to them, they could look on the map and find an open access point near them.

Sure, and for $5 I can make you a Cardinal in the Vatican, with papers and everything (if you believe that)...








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Post by bm_cricket » Tue May 18, 2010 11:37 am

http://gwifi.net/
http://v4.jiwire.com/search-hotspot-locations.htm
http://wigle.net/
http://hotspotr.com/wifi
Okay, so the list goes on. The only difference is that Google is organized and centralized.
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Post by Bounce530 » Tue May 18, 2010 12:57 pm

Your copy machine at work has a hard drive that records every document copied...
[youtube][/youtube]
(prob even has a copy of your ass)
What other people think about you is none of your business.

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Post by Rabbi Dali Rick » Tue May 18, 2010 7:08 pm

only one angle though...




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Post by DVD Burner » Tue May 18, 2010 7:37 pm

The creator of Google like so many Burners are Burners.

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Post by Kinetik V » Tue May 18, 2010 8:35 pm

Bounce530 wrote:Your copy machine at work has a hard drive that records every document copied...
[youtube][/youtube]
(prob even has a copy of your ass)
That video needs to promoted heavily. The more who know the better as it is the honest to Dog truth.
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Post by DVD Burner » Tue May 18, 2010 10:11 pm

Kinetic V wrote:
Bounce530 wrote:Your copy machine at work has a hard drive that records every document copied...
[youtube][/youtube]
(prob even has a copy of your ass)
That video needs to promoted heavily. The more who know the better as it is the honest to Dog truth.
OLD!

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Post by DVD Burner » Tue May 18, 2010 10:12 pm

How can anyone not know this?
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Post by Kinetik V » Tue May 18, 2010 10:19 pm

DVD Burner wrote:How can anyone not know this?
You work in a technical field while the majority of people do not. Do I really need to say more?

I posted that clip on Facebook this evening and got one heck of a response. People don't know and when they find out they genuinely freak out.
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Post by Simon of the Playa » Tue May 18, 2010 10:22 pm

The creator of Google like so many Burners are Burners.

there be Monsters about as well...
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Post by Snow » Tue May 18, 2010 11:40 pm

sweet so when my HDD dies google has my shit backed up!

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Post by Parasitoid » Wed May 19, 2010 3:57 am

sweet jesus not my priceless data!

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