Comments on: A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on Google, Apple, and “Privacy”

By: Discit

Discit — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Again, they hacked IE too. Google has smart engineers. As IE shown, this wasn’t because a backdoor. It was non-perfect security they found a way to hack. All systems are hackable with the right talent and motivation, as shown by the fact google was also able to hack Microsoft. They just found a different hole for IE.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74474.html

By: Discit

Discit — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:52:00 +0000

Adobe themselves have finally discontinued Flash mobile support for Android and the new Android, JellyBean, finally admitted Flash is not good enough and dropped it too. The reality that mobile Flash really does kinda suck and there are better options has made the decision for us.
Yay. Now we can all be on the same page with mobile Flash.

By: Discit

Discit — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:47:00 +0000

IE was hacked too. The point is google has smart engineers and they went out of their way to over-ride the user or browser’s settings and hack and track anyway.

By: Discit

Discit — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:45:00 +0000

There are lots of sites that ask you to enable cookies…
I guess this is different since they wanted to track every site you went to, but the minute you actually used their service or website they could ask you.

By: Discit

Discit — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:40:00 +0000

If google really cared about user preference, they’re smart people and could have put a notice on their sites or adsites to let users know cookies were off and ask to enable them.
Google cared more about tracking users silently and without their knowledge it seems and just hacked them, as it was found they did IE as well. They hacked IE too after all and used a different excuse, but along the same lines. If they want to say that IE (Microsoft) and Safari (Apple) were not standard, having user options for privacy, it sounds like google made up their own imagined standard and could have said anything to justify hacking and tracking. Besides, I don’t think people knew google was trying to track their entire web history.

By: Reuters: FTC to fine Google $22.5 million for violating Safari users’ security settings | Apple Club

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:47:29 +0000

[...] advertising cookies do not collect personal information.” Marketing Land’s Danny Sullivan acknowledged that “Google and many others have figured out ways to get around Apple’s default settings [...]

By: Reuters: FTC to fine Google $22.5 million for violating Safari users’ security settings | iPhone, iPad and MAC iAppDevice.com

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:34:49 +0000

By: Reuters: FTC to fine Google $22.5 million for violating Safari users’ security settings | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:15:23 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:24:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:42:00 +0000

oooops ….. I see your wearing a Anti Google is the Eye in SkyNet…. Tin Foil hat! lol…. sorry but I really can’t help it when someone is so obviously prejudiced against one company and biased toward another. I’m neither for or against any of these companies, I watch them all like a hawk. Because the reality is you can’t trust any of them and that’s especially true of the Big Five…. Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft!

So I use VPN and Secure Tunneling Services that encrypts all your traffic when I think it’s important enough. It can make it appear you’re in Spain or UK when your in Egypt or Canada. As consumers today we all have to learn to be a whole lot craftier at using the Web, than they are at figuring out who we really are. Best way? Keep ‘em guessing, remain suspicious of them all, but hold no biases or grudges and be suspicious of them all. Keep track of your privacy settings and always know how to change them fast.

Make passwords completely unrecognizable….. even to you. So a glance or even a long they won’t get remembered or stolen and use Copy/paste with them stored in an encrypted secure lock box App. Mix and change them often and make ‘em longest you can. Using all allowable numbers, letters and symbols that are allowed by the site. Remember to make a habit of turning off GPS when you don’t want your location tracked. Because it’s just like remembering to lock your doors and check the windows when leaving your home.

Above all don’t take it so personal. Because most of time they aren’t either. When you realize the odds of a human actually seeing and stealing your personal information are nil to none. The ones that sell or abuse your information don’t deserve to get the right information anyway and there are black and white lists of who’s the best to trust. Most of the time you’re dealing with a dumb machine just like when you call near anyone today. I trust machines a lot more ore than I do humans to look after your best interests.

That’s where Tunneling and using aliases on just about everything you do on the web comes in handy. Keep your Anonymity in tact by baffling them all with a little bullshizt and tom foolery. Make it fun!

Now to John Gruber; that guy has a big mouth and he sometimes uses it to store his foot in. There is perhaps no other blogger on line that’s as single minded and loyal to only Apple on the web as he is.

This is my first visit here, but I’m liking what JBAT writes so far. Battelle seems to say it like it is, holds no biases, and is willing to attack any side that’s seem to be looking for trouble. To that end, I like his fair approach…… “Don’t just like ONE…. when you can Dislike them all for your own greater good”!!! DD …..so Yeah I’ll be back!