On 10/17/06, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, i've never heard of any privacy leaks with google. (Most) users would be more concern with that privacy leaks rather than the other two.
Google has done a great job, so far, of keeping private data private. So have many other large companies. But this doesn't remove the threat. The assertion that some number of google employees have access to your data (search history, email, map directions, etc), and can read it if they want to is not hard to believe. Even worse, governments can assert pressure to hand over this data, leaking information even when the central owner thinks they've anonymized it (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data). Likewise, unscrupulous employees can steal the data and attempt to sell it on the black market.
For the time being, more and more P2P file-sharing network got shutdown everyday, no one can believe that power.
True, but many p2p networks have remained resilient to attempts at removing them. gnutella is, thus far, a great example -- it continues to thrive despite the shuttering of bearshare and possibly other clients in the United States. As long as some programmer somewhere on the planet can implement the gnutella protocol and distribute it without repurcussions, gnutella will live. Alen _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
