[119946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrey Gordon)
Fri Dec 4 09:17:52 2009
In-Reply-To: <5B3743FC2D0D8B41B27EE4F5EACA79D10C2EA606@DTN1EX01.gci.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:16:58 -0500
From: Andrey Gordon <andrey.gordon@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I agree, one could find this though paranoid, but even if we don't use
google out of fear that they will take over everything they still seem to be
growing.
What I'm trying to say is that you/we/they can take all the placards
you/we/they want and go and try to convince (or at least educate) the public
that google is becoming an evil empire, but there are enough sheep out there
to make google succeed.
Google makes it's services very attractive to use (free, convenient, great
functionality, integration, etc) so we do for the most part. There is a
chance that soon google will be collecting "statistics" on all aspects of
your digital life and that government has to do is to pass a law or even
more than that, nationalize google. That's just one paranoid theory I've
got. Send your tin foil hats and emails to PO Box 666, Antarctica, The
World.
Remember? They started as a search engine? Not sure how, but they are
becoming (became) the new Micro$oft, IMHO.
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Andrey Gordon [andrey.gordon@gmail.com]
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Warren Bailey <wbailey@gci.com> wrote:
> Anyone volunteer to FedEx Scott here a tin foil hat?? If not, I'll be happy
> to provide one... *cue xfiles theme....*
>
> Sent from my Blackberry. Please execute spelling errors.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Thu Dec 03 22:14:57 2009
> Subject: Re: news from Google
>
>
>
> jof@thejof.com
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> : 6.6.6.6 belongs to the US Army
>
> look at AS 666. At least they know their position in the universe.
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> andrey.gordon@gmail.com
>
> : IMHO that's where we are heading with google taking over every service
> imaginable
>
> Only if you let them. DBS (don't be sheep)
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>
> At the most basic minimum manage your cookies. Just a quick search (not
> with google) gives:
> google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?answer=28710 (you'll see a LOT
> of _utm<x> type cookies as soon as you start watching them)
>
> There are many other companies out there that know more about you than you
> think possible. Small example: Do you allow third party cookies unfettered
> access to what you do?
>
> scott
>
>
