Google's Leaky Analyst Day
from the it-just-doesn't-stop dept
Google, of course, is notorious for not giving analysts much guidance, but last week they had an "analyst day" to try to address many of their concerns. The aftermath, though, is showing a few glitches in the Google quiet zone. Among the information posted to the website were some financial projections, which quickly got pulled. However, they were up long enough to get discussed -- and to force Google to issue a statement begging people to ignore the content -- more or less guaranteeing the opposite comes true. At the same time, much of the web is buzzing over some other information, leaked in the "notes" of a PowerPoint presentation, about Google's plans to offer some sort of online storage drive. Whether or not this comes true, it would seem that Google is quickly learning how difficult it is to keep some things secret.
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Yeah a "mistake"
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Maybe as place to store not so important files, but not my critical ones.
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Ahh the power of admin
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on purpose
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What develops, develops. And when it's there, we can evaluate it.
All this, he did, she did stuff ... who cares?
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Google online storage
Privacy is not a concern. It is easy enough to put a client side encrypting filter and cache on the stream to give you effectivly a encrypting filesystem. If you don't trust Google, there are lots of open source ones that can be adapted as soon as google publishes the protocol.
Google, judging from recent announcements of moving their servers to politically resistant states, seems to take privacy concerns seriously.
Data on a Google storage is probably safer than on your hard drive...the government can't just go an seize records off a server in the Caymans, for example; not without scaring most of Congress to death about who the target really is.
And I don't care who is sponsoring spying, recording every bit and byte off a Google server is practically impossible, even with cheap terabyte storage and quantum copying of optic streams.
However, there are still some issues involved. Who is liable if information is lost or leaked? Not legally liable, but in terms of company reputation. If Google stock goes down as a result, are there Sarbox violations? It is easy enough for Google to change this to an acceptable level of risk, using netfilter/iptables with user and process filters, for example.
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HAHAHA, excellent!!
Love the idea of making the internet an "entity". Soon we will address our questions to the great google overloard. Remember the sci-fi stories where machines/computers take over the world? One step closer everyday. Fear not, we remain masters over machines (for the moment).
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Nope tell you the truth. Like I said another zombie sheep.
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They have done just that though is your main idiocy. May be an old topic, but no one over there was smart enougyh to tell you the truth I guess. The CIA has access to any server in the world bank non-bank encrypted or non-encrypted. It's no big secret, that's actually unclassified to know that.
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