Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Fields
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > i am confused here, which is not at all unusual. did the chinese get > any data which google does not give to american LEAs in answer to an > administrative request, i.e. not even a court order? You mean why didn't they just ask for it

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Randy Bush
i am confused here, which is not at all unusual. did the chinese get any data which google does not give to american LEAs in answer to an administrative request, i.e. not even a court order? randy

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Anthony Uk wrote: The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. I'm not Chinese, but putting myself in their position... I would be surprised if they were trying to determine

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
The Google Spokesperson I heard on the radio yesterday evening said that they had not yet stopped censoring, and declined to give a date when they would. His point was that the clock is ticking and Google can see it. On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Jérôme Fleury wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/14/10 12:31 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mshel...@cox.net wrote: From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the picture to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies the common community the recipients belong to. I

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mshel...@cox.net wrote: > > > From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the > > picture to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies > > the common community the recipients belong to. It's pretty straight > > forward.

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2010-01-13 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: more news from Google > > I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous > position/postings > havin

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mshel...@cox.net wrote: > From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the picture > to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies the common > community the recipients belong to. It's pretty straight forward. > The magic

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread msheldon
nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: more news from Google Sent: Jan 13, 2010 12:53 PM > -Original Message- > From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:49 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: more news from Google > > It's not cle

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:31:44 +0100, Anthony Uk said: > >> "Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the >> attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights >> activists. " > >> I have orders of magnitude fewer users than gma

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Israel
Joe Abley wrote: > On 2010-01-13, at 11:31, Anthony Uk wrote: > > >> The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their >> inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. >> > > It's arguably something that gmail users consent to when they give Google >

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> -Original Message- > From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:49 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: more news from Google > > It's not clear to me you have to read any e-mail to figure out that > "help

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:31:44PM +0100, Anthony Uk wrote: > I have orders of magnitude fewer users than gmail does, and often look > at their mailboxes (with their consent, of course), but I still couldn't > tell you the political position of any of them (apart from the pol

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:31:44 +0100, Anthony Uk said: > "Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the > attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights > activists. " > I have orders of magnitude fewer users than gmail does, and often look > at their mailbox

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Ronald Cotoni
It was to others :) But in the process of troubleshooting, an admin may come across something say by looking at a bounce message or other statistics such as which domains the user sends to on a regular basis. cPanel even comes with Eximstats which does some of that for you. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-13, at 14:51, Ronald Cotoni wrote: > You should most likely read their terms of service and that would > actually answer this instead of guessing. I've read the terms of service. I may be interpreting them incorrectly, sure, but I'm not guessing. If your comment was not directed at

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Ronald Cotoni
You should most likely read their terms of service and that would actually answer this instead of guessing. Also, if your reading your own employee's email, that is most likely perfectly legal. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 2010-01-13, at 11:31, Anthony Uk wrote: > >>

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-13, at 11:31, Anthony Uk wrote: > The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their > inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. It's arguably something that gmail users consent to when they give Google rights to index and process their mail,

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Uk
On 13.01.2010 06:24, Ken Chase wrote: I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous position/postings having read this article. I just can't figure out their /ANGLE/. :) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html Well played, google? /kc From the artic

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Michael Smith
Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: more news from Google >> >> I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous >> position/postings >> having read this article. >&

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joel Esler
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: >> You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly >> breaking a law is bad joo-joo. > > OT. > Please don't say "joo-joo" every time the TechCrunch folks see that > they get diarrhea That is a horrible name for a product. J

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Jorge Amodio
> You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country.  But blatantly breaking > a law is bad joo-joo. OT. Please don't say "joo-joo" every time the TechCrunch folks see that they get diarrhea Cheers Jorge PS what about all the property and copyright laws being supposedly broken over there ?

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Timmins
Jérôme Fleury wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 17:14, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote: I for one would be really happy to see them follow through with this. I was very disappointed when they agreed to censor search results, although I can unde

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Jérôme Fleury
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 17:14, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote: > >> I for one would be really happy to see them follow through with this.  I was >> very disappointed when they agreed to censor search results, although I can >> understand why they did s

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Marshall Eubanks
orporate equivalent of recalling your ambassador. Regards Marshall You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly breaking a law is bad joo-joo. -- TTFN, patrick -Original Message- From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 1

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Patrick W. Gilmore: > You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly > breaking a law is bad joo-joo. I think we all consider their approach to copyright law refreshing and useful, so there are certainly laws worth breaking. 8-)

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
ilto:m...@sizone.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: more news from Google >> >> I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous >> position/postings >> having read this article. >> &g

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:18 AM, Benjamin Billon wrote: > Seems logical, after all. > > Considering the (bad) performances of Google search engine in China compared > to Chinese competitors, and considering the fact that wouldn't change a bit > in the future, closing offices wouldn't be a bad thing

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Benjamin Billon
Seems logical, after all. Considering the (bad) performances of Google search engine in China compared to Chinese competitors, and considering the fact that wouldn't change a bit in the future, closing offices wouldn't be a bad thing. That doesn't mean closing R&D centers. Ben Le 13/01/2010

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Stefan Fouant
ical if they'll go through with it... Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D > -Original Message- > From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: more ne

more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Ken Chase
I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous position/postings having read this article. I just can't figure out their /ANGLE/. :) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html Well played, google? /kc -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca - +1 416 897 6284

Re: news from Google

2009-12-22 Thread Jorge Amodio
>> Bill Gates has made a commitment to basically give away all of his money and >> quit MS to devote full time to doing it. It will be a hard act to follow. > > this is all great stuff, but unrelated to network operations. Off to > another list pls? Unless the Gates Foundation and Google wish to s

Re: news from Google

2009-12-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: > Bill Gates has made a commitment to basically give away all of his money and > quit MS to devote full time to doing it. It will be a hard act to follow. this is all great stuff, but unrelated to network operations. Off to another list pls?

Re: news from Google

2009-12-22 Thread Bruce Williams
Bill Gates has made a commitment to basically give away all of his money and quit MS to devote full time to doing it. It will be a hard act to follow. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:03 AM, JC Dill wrote: > Hank Nussbacher wrote: > >> >> Google makes about $1.5B profit per quarter. $20M of charity?

Re: news from Google

2009-12-22 Thread JC Dill
Hank Nussbacher wrote: Google makes about $1.5B profit per quarter. $20M of charity? I don't like MS any more than most, but Gates Foundation has received $20B from Bill and Warren over the past 3 years. My hat goes off to those guys! Yes, the Gates Foundation gives a lot of money to wo

Re: news from Google

2009-12-22 Thread Jay Ess
William Hamilton wrote: Jay Ess wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation Whilst it may have been established by one of the Microsoft founders, what does that have to do with Microsoft's corporate charitable giving? I would guess that the money originally comes from

Re: news from Google

2009-12-22 Thread William Hamilton
Jay Ess wrote: Jorge Amodio wrote: Another one from the "Evil Doer" http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/ Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation Whilst it may have been established by one of t

Re: news from Google

2009-12-22 Thread Jay Ess
Jorge Amodio wrote: Another one from the "Evil Doer" http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/ Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > Google makes about $1.5B profit per quarter. $20M of charity? I don't > like MS any more than most, but Gates Foundation has received $20B from Bill > and Warren over the past 3 years. My hat goes off to those guys! > Just to put thi

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Jorge Amodio wrote: Another one from the "Evil Doer" http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/ Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ... Cheers Jorge Google makes about $1.5B profit per quarter. $20M of charity? I don't like MS any more than

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Bret Clark
Scott Howard wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: CSR isnt $0 ROI. Unless they're doing it wrong. I said essentially. If you think they're making even 1% of $20M, one of us confused. I'll admit I do not do marketing, so maybe it's me. The tax wr

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > CSR isnt $0 ROI. Unless they're doing it wrong. > > I said essentially. If you think they're making even 1% of $20M, one of us > confused. I'll admit I do not do marketing, so maybe it's me. > The tax write-off alone is going to be

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: > Another one from the "Evil Doer" > > http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/ > > Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ... > > Cheers > Jorge Other companies also do provide millions to charity each year: http://

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 21, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Ken Chase wrote: > CSR isnt $0 ROI. Unless they're doing it wrong. I said essentially. If you think they're making even 1% of $20M, one of us confused. I'll admit I do not do marketing, so maybe it's me. > Which they aren't. You're not paid by them and you're arg

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Ken Chase
CSR isnt $0 ROI. Unless they're doing it wrong. Which they aren't. You're not paid by them and you're arguing FOR them. Well played, Google. /kc On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:28:10PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore's said: >On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Corey Travioli wrote: > >>> Another one from

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Jorge Amodio
> I know it's off-topic, but I'm impressed with the idea that a public > corporation can spend 8 figures on something that has essentially $0 ROI and > multiple people here can find bad things about it. > > I'm shocked someone didn't say "but that's only 0.$WHATEVER percent of > their profit

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Corey Travioli wrote: >> Another one from the "Evil Doer" >> http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/ >> Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ... > So what they are saying is because we as individuals are too cheep > to give to charity they

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Corey Travioli
Another one from the "Evil Doer" http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/ Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ... Cheers Jorge So what they are saying is because we as individuals are too cheep to give to charity they are giving in our stead to shame us. Yup, th

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Ken Chase
Why would they do that and advertise the fact? Advertising the fact generates the possible interpretation that they were pursuing other goals other than pure altrusim. Marketing comes in many shapes and forms. CSR is a big deal these days any Im sure there are many pros at it at google now too.

Re: news from Google

2009-12-21 Thread Jorge Amodio
Another one from the "Evil Doer" http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/ Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ... Cheers Jorge

Re: news from Google

2009-12-14 Thread Joe Greco
> If you aren't breaking the law, the government won't be looking for your > data, and won't ask Google/Yahoo/Bing/AltaVista or other search companies > for your data. This seems overly optimistic. Remember the whole telecom fiasco? Even if you are breaking the law in some mild way, do you

Re: news from Google

2009-12-12 Thread Joshua Smith
3:09 PM, Scott Berkman wrote: >> Also reminds me of the Level 3 DNS servers in the 4.2.2.[1-8++] range. >> >>        -Scott >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Jonathan Lassoff [mailto:j...@thejof.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:51 PM &

Re: news from Google

2009-12-12 Thread Andrew Euell
in the 4.2.2.[1-8++] range. > >        -Scott > > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Lassoff [mailto:j...@thejof.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:51 PM > To: nanog > Subject: Re: news from Google > > Excerpts from Charles Wyble's message of Th

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread JC Dill
Seth Mattinen wrote: JC Dill wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: What I mean was that everyone seems happy with the whole "don't do anything you don't want anyone knowing" thing, then this tangent started. There must be things you don't want people to know that have nothing to do with a potential

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
JC Dill wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: What I mean was that everyone seems happy with the whole "don't do anything you don't want anyone knowing" thing, then this tangent started. There must be things you don't want people to know that have nothing to do with a potential issue with law enforce

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread JC Dill
Seth Mattinen wrote: JC Dill wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: Hell, all you gmail users on this list right now are feeding the machine with all our data. The part that gets me: everyone seems happy with this. This list has public archives that are already crawled and archived by Google. For

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Jorge Amodio wrote: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHNU_enUS355US353&q=%22Preventing+my+email+to+gmail+from+entering%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi= I didn't get any results from that link. ~Seth

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Amodio
>> This list has public archives that are already crawled and archived by >> Google.  For example: >> >> http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/threads.html >> http://seclists.org/nanog/2009/Dec/434 >> >> Subscribing to the list with a gmail account doesn't change anything about >> what Google kn

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
JC Dill wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: Hell, all you gmail users on this list right now are feeding the machine with all our data. The part that gets me: everyone seems happy with this. This list has public archives that are already crawled and archived by Google. For example: http://www.

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
JC Dill wrote: The part that gets me is that you don't already understand this. Can you please be nice? I didn't throw personal attacks at you. ~Seth

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Amodio
> This list has public archives that are already crawled and archived by > Google.  For example: > > http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/threads.html > http://seclists.org/nanog/2009/Dec/434 > > Subscribing to the list with a gmail account doesn't change anything about > what Google knows abou

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread JC Dill
Seth Mattinen wrote: Hell, all you gmail users on this list right now are feeding the machine with all our data. The part that gets me: everyone seems happy with this. This list has public archives that are already crawled and archived by Google. For example: http://www.merit.edu/mail.a

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2009-12-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- se...@rollernet.us wrote: The part that gets me: everyone seems happy with this. --- Not everyone. ;-) scott

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Amodio
>> LRMAO >> > > Coming from a gmail user... Yes, and very satisfied with their service (not happy with the line wraps though and plain text formatting), very convenient to receive messages from e-mail lists and a more efficient way to deal with spam and other nuisances. I've to admit that actuall

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Peter Beckman wrote: Using a combo of Ad Blocker Plus and NoScript in Firefox helps reduce that significantly, without all the popups. But yeah, it's hard to use the Internet and not get tracked by a bunch of different entities you know nothing about. Which gives further proof that my ear

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Jorge Amodio wrote: LRMAO Coming from a gmail user... ~Seth

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Painter
Peter Beckman wrote: I'm shocked that really smart people like Asa Dotzler are shocked by what Eric Schmidt said, what I assumed was simply common knowledge - that there is no real privacy on the internet. "On the Sprint 3G network... If [the handset uses] the [WAP] Media Access Gateway, we

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Here's a pretty common line that Microsoft has that Google completely omits > (or that I can't find): > > "We do not sell, rent, or lease our customer lists to third parties." LRMAO Or they just acquire the third party to keep it in house ...

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: If you aren't breaking the law, the government won't be looking for your data, and won't ask Google/Yahoo/Bing/AltaVista or other search companies for your data. That's an extremely naive view of how governments operate. To put it mildly. Tha

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Amodio
>  If you aren't breaking the law, the government won't be looking for your >  data, and won't ask Google/Yahoo/Bing/AltaVista or other search companies >  for your data. Welcome to China, host country of IETF 79, the first IETF meeting that will break the record of VPN tunnels ... Also, what law

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Scott Weeks wrote: --- beck...@angryox.com wrote: From: Peter Beckman At least Google seems to be honest about it. -- Yeah, trust them... I said "seems." It's hard to verify if ANY company follows what is said in their Pri

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread sthaug
> If you aren't breaking the law, the government won't be looking for your > data, and won't ask Google/Yahoo/Bing/AltaVista or other search companies > for your data. That's an extremely naive view of how governments operate. To put it mildly. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jim Richardson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > Peter Beckman wrote: > Here's a pretty common line that Microsoft has that Google completely omits > (or that I can't find): > > "We do not sell, rent, or lease our customer lists to third parties." > > ~Seth > > You aren't Bing's customer

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Holstein
> In FF goto "Tools", 'Options', 'Privacy', and select: "Accept cookies from > sites'; 'Accept third-party cookies'; 'Keep until: just > to get a taste. Be sure to click on 'Show Details' when the flood of cookies > comes and pay attention to the details. Don't go to sites that bork when you

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: "We want your money" versus "we want your life". I don't pay any of those search engines -- they make money off of advertising. Huh, just like Google. And to think that none of the search engines are taking that data and trying to build better pr

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- beck...@angryox.com wrote: From: Peter Beckman At least Google seems to be honest about it. -- Yeah, trust them... --- What does Bing say they keep about you when you search, not logged into your Passport account?

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- rich...@bennett.com wrote: From: Richard Bennett Microsoft just wants your cash, but Google wants your personal information so they can sell it over and over again. The entire Google --- You need to study up on your corporate competition tactics m

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Peter Beckman wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: It's better than the "maybe you shouldn't be doing things you don't want people to know about" statement. That right there gives me some insight on where Google wants to go in the future with privacy. At least Google seems to be

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: It's better than the "maybe you shouldn't be doing things you don't want people to know about" statement. That right there gives me some insight on where Google wants to go in the future with privacy. At least Google seems to be honest about it. Wh

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2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Richard Bennett wrote: > Microsoft just wants your cash, but Google wants your personal > information so they can sell it over and over again. The entire Google > business model is at odds with notions of personal privacy, so it's not > even a question of the occasional excess on their part. Schmi

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Richard Bennett
Microsoft just wants your cash, but Google wants your personal information so they can sell it over and over again. The entire Google business model is at odds with notions of personal privacy, so it's not even a question of the occasional excess on their part. Schmidt did what Michael Kinsey c

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Scott Weeks wrote: --- m...@sizone.org wrote: From: Ken Chase topically related, it's actually news from Mozilla: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142106/Mozilla_exec_suggests_Firefox_users_move_to_Bing_cites_Google_privacy_stance?source=rss_news from the horse's mouth, as it were. So,

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Amodio
Another one for the collection http://www.circleid.com/posts/dot_google_before_christmas/ Cheers Jorge

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Um, yeah.  Them there micro$loth folks is W more privacy oriented > than them google rascals. Well, we still have hope that bing logs are stored in windows servers making them more difficult to access or even retain after the seasonal color of the screen of death. The article is not wo

Re: news from Google

2009-12-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- m...@sizone.org wrote: From: Ken Chase topically related, it's actually news from Mozilla: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142106/Mozilla_exec_suggests_Firefox_users_move_to_Bing_cites_Google_privacy_stance?source=rss_news from the horse's mouth, as it were. So, how bout that DNS. -

Re: news from Google

2009-12-10 Thread Ken Chase
topically related, it's actually news from Mozilla: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142106/Mozilla_exec_suggests_Firefox_users_move_to_Bing_cites_Google_privacy_stance?source=rss_news from the horse's mouth, as it were. So, how bout that DNS. /kc -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca -

Re: news from Google

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Hills
On 08/12/09 23:19, Tony Finch wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Chris Hills wrote: >> >> I maintain a list here [1], many of which are reachable with IPv6. >> [1] http://www.chaz6.com/files/resolv.conf > > Not all of those are open resolvers, so I wonder what the cirteria for > listing are. I'm especia

Re: news from Google

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Chris Hills wrote: > > I maintain a list here [1], many of which are reachable with IPv6. > [1] http://www.chaz6.com/files/resolv.conf Not all of those are open resolvers, so I wonder what the cirteria for listing are. I'm especially surprised to see the IPv6 addresses of Cambr

Re: news from Google

2009-12-07 Thread Steve Meuse
Martin Hannigan expunged (mar...@theicelandguy.com): > > Why did Google put an infrastructure critical application into PA space? > I'm not sure what the policy is now, but it seemed that when I was at L3 (losing my memory at this point) 4/8 was used as PA space and 8/8 was basically handed o

Re: random DNS, was news from Google

2009-12-07 Thread John Levine
>Will be interesting to see if ISPs respond to a large scale thing like >this taking hold by blocking UDP/TCP 53 like many now do with tcp/25 >(albeit for other reasons). Therein lies the problem with some of the >"net neturality" arguments .. there's a big difference between "doing it >because it

Re: news from Google

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Holstein
>> >> now Google DNS, anything more? >> >> http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns-new-dns.html > Probably in support of their various Android netbooks that are in the pipe. They'll likely come pre-configured to use GoogleDNS .. that way they won't (accidentally) loo

Re: news from Google

2009-12-07 Thread Alex Aster
Google has got a lot of data centers around the world, but the DNS servers are located in some of these. There is the list of data centers with DNS servers: USA, Atlanta USA, Reston,VA USA, Seattle USA, California Brazil, Sao Paulo Taiwan, Taipei City Germany, Frankfurt/Main Netherlands, Groninge

Re: news from Google

2009-12-06 Thread Jorge Amodio
> enter the picture.  Of course, some of the DNS NXDOMAIN and > similar "synthesis" they've been performing may perturb some > users, and hence Google's service (and _many before) are > presumably welcomed by casual (or expert) end users. What really concerns me is that some ISPs these days are as

Re: news from Google

2009-12-06 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Danny McPherson wrote: > > I think one of the things that concerns me most with Google > validating and jumping on the DNS "open resolver" bandwagon > is that it'll force more folks (ISPs, enterprises and end > users a

Re: news from Google

2009-12-06 Thread Danny McPherson
I think one of the things that concerns me most with Google validating and jumping on the DNS "open resolver" bandwagon is that it'll force more folks (ISPs, enterprises and end users alike) to leave DNS resolver IP access wide open. Malware already commonly changes DNS resolver settings to

Re: news from Google

2009-12-05 Thread Henry Linneweh
Sent: Sat, December 5, 2009 5:21:24 AM Subject: Re: news from Google On 04/12/09 19:25, Christopher Morrow wrote: > one note: OpenDNS is not the only 'competitor' here. just one of > the better obviously known ones. > > ie: > 4.2.2.2  L(3) > 198.6.1.1/2/3/4/5/122

Re: news from Google

2009-12-05 Thread Chris Hills
On 04/12/09 19:25, Christopher Morrow wrote: > one note: OpenDNS is not the only 'competitor' here just one of > the better obviously known ones. > > ie: > 4.2.2.2 L(3) > 198.6.1.1/2/3/4/5/122/142/146/195 ex-UU > Neustar (can't recall ips, sorry) I maintain a list here [1], many of which are

Re: news from Google

2009-12-04 Thread Ben Carleton
I don' think that google will be able to kill opendns right now. Neither google nor any of the other well known DNS services provide the "value-added services" that OpenDNS does, such as filtering, etc which can be a godsend for small businesses that can't afford a rackful of gear... BGC On D

Re: news from Google

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 03:34:10PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Christopher Morrow > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Richard Bennett > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Google will be all sweetness and ligh

Re: news from Google

2009-12-04 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Come on.  Acquiring a company is now considered evil? It's a sarcasm about the ones crying wolf about Google becoming "evil".

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