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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Yeah uhhh good job blaming Google's monitoring systems on XP. As someone said, it's most likely a bot set up by Google to look for abuse. Just like banks and credit card companies have set up bots to monitor your creditcard usage to find identity thefts. It's not like Google hired people to read all y'all e-mails, lol.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/0...e_privacy_poll/

"More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them, results of a new opinion poll show.

The phone poll, which sampled over 1000 internet users, was conducted by the Ponemon Institute following the DoJ subpoenas last week.

This suggests that the battle for internet privacy is far from over.

Google maintains a lifetime cookie that expires in 2038, and records the user's IP address. But more recently it has begun to integrate services which record the user's personal search history, email, shopping habits, and social contacts. After first promising not to tie its email service to its search service, Google went ahead and opted its users in anyway. It's all part of CEO Eric Schmidt's promise to create a "Google that knows more about you".

The conundrum for Google now is does it come clean with the data it stores about users, or does it simply hope that the majority of users don't care?

In the survey, 56 per cent of users said Google should not turn over information to the Government, and only 14 per cent were happy for Google to turn over information even in criminal cases. ®"



hopefully this clears things up
Also winxp collects far more information about the user than win98 did, trust me on this

Last edited by geroin on Sep-03-2006 at 07:14

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Originally posted by geroin http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/0...e_privacy_poll/ "More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them, results of a new opinion poll show. The phone poll, which sampled over 1000 internet users, was conducted by the Ponemon Institute following the DoJ subpoenas last week. This suggests that the battle for internet privacy is far from over. Google maintains a lifetime cookie that expires in 2038, and records the user's IP address. But more recently it has begun to integrate services which record the user's personal search history, email, shopping habits, and social contacts. After first promising not to tie its email service to its search service, Google went ahead and opted its users in anyway. It's all part of CEO Eric Schmidt's promise to create a "Google that knows more about you". The conundrum for Google now is does it come clean with the data it stores about users, or does it simply hope that the majority of users don't care? In the survey, 56 per cent of users said Google should not turn over information to the Government, and only 14 per cent were happy for Google to turn over information even in criminal cases. ®" hopefully this clears things up Also winxp collects far more information about the user than win98 did, trust me on this

like thats gonna stop any of you from typing 'hot teen girls nude' in the search bar.

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Originally posted by geroin http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/0...e_privacy_poll/ "More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them, results of a new opinion poll show. The phone poll, which sampled over 1000 internet users, was conducted by the Ponemon Institute following the DoJ subpoenas last week. This suggests that the battle for internet privacy is far from over. Google maintains a lifetime cookie that expires in 2038, and records the user's IP address. But more recently it has begun to integrate services which record the user's personal search history, email, shopping habits, and social contacts. After first promising not to tie its email service to its search service, Google went ahead and opted its users in anyway. It's all part of CEO Eric Schmidt's promise to create a "Google that knows more about you". The conundrum for Google now is does it come clean with the data it stores about users, or does it simply hope that the majority of users don't care? In the survey, 56 per cent of users said Google should not turn over information to the Government, and only 14 per cent were happy for Google to turn over information even in criminal cases. ®" hopefully this clears things up Also winxp collects far more information about the user than win98 did, trust me on this

You missed my point - I was telling you to stop blaming XP for something Google is doing.

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Originally posted by geroin its probably done automatically when the system sees some suspicious activity on your email

It's a good thing if you ask me. Google needs to do something about spammers.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur You missed my point - I was telling you to stop blaming XP for something Google is doing.

i did not
i said the internet became way more unsecured after the release of windows xp, all your information could be obtained in a few hours if needed.

I'm still failing to see what XP has to do with Internet becoming unsecure. You might as well have said, "The Internet became a lot less secure with the release of the Ford Mondeo".

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Originally posted by chinamon like thats gonna stop any of you from typing 'hot teen girls nude' in the search bar.

Hopefully it deters people from typing 'hot pre -teen girls nude'!


But yeah, on topic, i'm not suprised about that. I'm sure they have a bot that can detect when large attachement of certain files are being added to emails and stuff like that.
But i'm not suprised they google is monitoring people's information. Nothing on the Internet is private anymore.

Monitoring information can be a good thing, as long as these companies don't use them to their own advantage (which i'm sure they do). I work in the 'risk management' area, and you'd be surpised what kind of information you can buy on the internet!

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Yeah, it's amazing how many people still think that Internet is governed by some unknown force that protects your well-being and security. And that it somehow "takes care" of you when you do shit on it without thinking. Internet is like the Wild West of IT, except with a lot more bandits trying to steal your money or whatever else they can. You gotta fend for yourself because there's only a handful of websites that'll do it for you.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur I'm still failing to see what XP has to do with Internet becoming unsecure. You might as well have said, "The Internet became a lot less secure with the release of the Ford Mondeo".

because the majority of people are using XP and even if you're still using an older version of windows you're pretty much forced to switch over to the newer version since there is no updates released for it. XP is known to store or send information to microsoft (and other companies) about the user. I cannot find any articles right now but it was known even before it came out in stores.
dont get me wrong it might not be a bad thing but im just saying all your info is available if needed.

Last edited by geroin on Sep-03-2006 at 21:25

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur I'm still failing to see what XP has to do with Internet becoming unsecure.

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Originally posted by geroin XP is known to store or send information to microsoft (and other companies) about the user.