50 big brothers...

Wow cool! So now the government won't have to use those backdoor passwords to get into my computer they can just use a google search engine to search through mine and everyone else's files in their data center.

More google crap that doesn't make any money. What are they going to do? Plant little ads in all your files?

I remember in the late 90's everyone said that cloud computing would dethrone Mircosoft, back then it was Oracle who was going to do it. Never happened.

They said computers would be become simple appliances with no real computing power and everything would be on the web. Well, computers got even more powerful, the complete opposite.

Great, I can finally start that free porn collection I've been dreaming of.

I don't see how this could be possible since the MAC address will never make it past your ISP. If you're on a non bridged link (eg not ADSL+PPPoE) then it shouldn't even be visible outside your local network.

I am however pretty sure that they have a setup where they can predict with some confidence that x% of searches from a given IP belong to a particular person. They use a long held cookie and I'm sure they have an algorithm that can "rejoin" a chain that is broken by that cookie being cleared (eg if someone upgrades their computer)

That's why I *really* need to write this script I keep thinking about that does one simple thing: feeds random queries to Google 24/7. My own queries will be hiding in plain sight. :warning :winkwink:

Getting closer and closer...



http://blog.ugo.com/images/uploads/t3_terminators.jpg

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Yeah, the whole point of having my own hard drive is to keep other people away
from my data.

If a hacker breaks into your gdrive account then they just load it up and it then
"syncs" up automatically with your hard drive.

No thanks.