dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY
| What is with all of this privacy concerns crap?
It's a fat load of steaming crap.
If it's PRIVATE don't POST it to the Internet.
Even though Google has never had a security breech and even though Google has never sold anyone's information and even though Google has never done one thing to abuse user privacy there are always these "privacy concerns" from groups or from reporters that never do one damn thing to actually call in to question the privacy of user data on Google servers.
I am a better, more productive business owner thanks to the free and paid services that I have with Google. There are bits that you can find here and there that have more features in certain areas but nothing that overall compares with Google IMHO. Bring on the gDrive. I'll pay, and I'll be smart enough to control what data I place on the Interwebs because it is MY responsibility to see to that my private shit stays private. |
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quetwo
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East Lansing, MI | You may be smart enough to only store 'public' information on the gDrive, but what about your employees/bosses/others?? Hell, I can't even stop the 90yr old lady from HR emailing me a spreadsheet of everybody's Social Security numbers each week! |
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La Luna
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Yeah, but that's just you.....
People freak out over google "cookies" (and "cookes" in general) and how they "track" you, especially in gmail with those "relevant" ads they serve up. There are people who won't even read email sent via gmail.
There will be a lot of people who won't touch this with a ten foot pole as they have a totally irrational fear of anything google, much like they have an irrational fear of other *big* organizations. Crippling paranoia is an ugly thing.
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dallash
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Re: What is with all of this privacy concerns crap?
I am totally with you on this, dualsub2006.
The "privacy idiots" can suck it.
Google totally rocks, and I don't think Wall Street fully realizes their value/potential yet.
I just wish I had bought more stock than I did when it was in the $450 range last year.
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major marco
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2 edits | said by dallash  :I am totally with you on this, dualsub2006. The "privacy idiots" can suck it. Since anyone who believes in privacy is an idiot, will you kindly create a spreadsheet for me consisting of your SSN, mother's maiden name, birthdate, current address and all of the addresses and employers you've had for the last ten years? Please also include the account numbers of any checking/savings accounts as well. And investment accounts. Can't forget those. Include also another spreadsheet detailing your medical history--surgery, any hospitalization, allergies if any, whether or not you are circumcized, things of that nature.
When you're finished compiling all that, I'd also like a separate spreadsheet of how much money you have earned -both above board and under the table- Please also include any spouses and children and at least 100 of your relatives, blood or otherwise. I'd also like to have their personal information as well. |
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markwp2001
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Matt
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Re: Yeah, but that's just you.....
said by La Luna :People freak out over google "cookies" (and "cookes" in general) and how they "track" you, especially in gmail with those "relevant" ads they serve up. There are people who won't even read email sent via gmail. There will be a lot of people who won't touch this with a ten foot pole as they have a totally irrational fear of anything google, much like they have an irrational fear of other *big* organizations. Crippling paranoia is an ugly thing. I have seen this first hand. It's sad really. If they get that paranoid about Google, I can only imagine what other paranoid delusions they hold in their real life.
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dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY
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Re: What is with all of this privacy concerns crap?
ANYONE that sticks this kind of personal information in an email, a spreadsheet or on a free site like Xdrive really is an IDIOT and is demanding that someone rake them.
I don't have employee information anywhere except on paper and with my payroll company. If they screw up that is for their lawyers to buy them out of. I don't one shred of the information that you have asked for here anywhere except with my mortgage company and some of it with my bank. Again, if they lose it they have lawyers.
People simply need to be smart with the shit that they put online. None of my data that is online is "public" as someone else has said, but IF Google shits the bed and my info hits the wide open intertubes I will be just fine and so will my business. |
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RickNY
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said by dualsub2006 :Even though Google has never had a security breech As long as youve convinced yourself of that, all is well..»www.itsecurity.com/features/famo···-051407/
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dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY
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I don't have bosses and my employees don't have access to any information that I would care to lose. The core digital records of my business are stored locally on a RAID server that only I have access to. It doesn't have Internet access at all and the drive is encrypted. I access it from one computer and that is the only two things on that network.
My employees know what jobs happen when and where and that is it. I didn't get to where I am by exposing the manner and method in which I do business to people that are no more committed to me than stray dog would be.
My PRIVATE business is PRIVATE and I am smart enough to keep it that way. It really is simple. If RAID storage is out of your price range then do a TrueCrypt volume and use some free options to back that up for you. |
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dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY
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You think a couple of Blogger hacks and some user side malware rises to the level of a Google data breech? You are flat out wrong.
Who in the hell has any kind of personal information stored on Blogger? If I used Adwords I might have cared about that malware thing, then again, not so much. It was still user side and not a systemic loss of data on the part of Google.
When someone cracks a Google server and steals a bunch of shit THEN you come back here and rub my nose in it. Stupid people have happily installed malware on their computers for a long time. That's not Google's fault. |
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Frink
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Scotch Plains, NJ | reply to dualsub2006
ahahahah, too funny! |
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dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY | You have something to add? |
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SilverSurfer
join:2007-08-19
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said by dualsub2006 :ANYONE that sticks this kind of personal information in an email, a spreadsheet or on a free site like Xdrive really is an IDIOT and is demanding that someone rake them. Didn't you just call anyone concerned with privacy an idiot? |
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Frink
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I just found your comments funny, because any business larger than a very small one can't do what you do, and you seem to assert that it's actually possible to even come close. |
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Matt
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| said by Frink :I just found your comments funny, because any business larger than a very small one can't do what you do, and you seem to be assert that it's actually possible to even come close. It's very possible to come close. AIG did it years ago. Even their laptop drives are encrypted.
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dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY
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I am a very small business. In fact, so small that I have fewer than 10 full time employees. I did not, however, come up with this on my own. My wife works for a VERY large company with operations on every continent on the planet.
I asked her best friends husband who happens to work in their IT department to describe what I could do to keep my data safe. Over dinner and drinks he mapped it out for me on the back of a paper menu. What hardware to use, which router and firewall to control access and how to do the RAID so that it would work with the encryption.
It is THEIR model for data security. There is low hanging fruit that simply has to pass through employee hands and then there are the things that shouldn't be seen by the masses. It is a simple principle.
Hell, my wife's work laptop and desktop use full disk encryption and though she is in product development by the time it lands in her lap the secrets are already out of the bag. |
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dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY | reply to SilverSurfer
No, that was a comment made by someone else. I did just call people who would take the kind of info that this guy wants and put it out there on a service like what is being discussed an idiot. |
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ltjordan
join:2001-12-02
Hyattsville, MD | reply to dualsub2006
Your wife's company should hold security seminars for all these other companies out there that lose people's private, sensitive information all the time because they don't have a clue. |
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dualsub2006
join:2007-07-18
Newport, KY | That's easy. Get it away from the Internet. There is no excuse at all for these kinds of losses. TJ Maxx will take a hit in court that might put them right out of business. |
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