On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 08:16 -0400, Tom H wrote: > Do you have any proof that Google's using queries to its Public DNS > service to profile anyone (in spite of its FAQ clarifying that it > isn't)?
I'd certainly have my doubts. I tend to have little faith in the public declarations of what corporations or governments intend, or are doing. Often they just play with words, so their precise declaration is technically correct, but what they've actually done is something else. Want an example? There's the president who "did not have sex with that woman." Well, he apparently did have some sexually intimate relations, just not conjoined genitals. So the denial is correct, but incorrect. Given that Google has had a stated aim of databasing everything, I'd be surprised if at some time they hadn't databased people's use of their DNS servers, or if they hadn't intended to. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't databasing it, somehow. And it's not hard for Google to say we don't database /your/ queries to the DNS servers, if what they database is just the queries, and not who. But, since their search engine also databases queries of another kind, it would be possible to merge the data. Of course, there's people who just love stuffing databases with bogus data, to poison their data with nonsense. I used to like doing that with a friend's website, asking for pages with suggestive names, or simply typing messages in the URL request, to see if he looked at his site's 404 logs. I can't be bothered to do that sort of thing all the time, though. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
