Google May Delete Your Blog
With the latest evolution of the web (aka Web2.0) and more sites than ever actually offer to help one organize his life and increase his productivity, there is a certain level of trust that needs to be achieved (at lease for me) to allow other sites to store my information. If I don’t know you and don’t trust you, I may find it hard to let you organize my phonebook, addresses or furthermore, my diary. Why? Because I don’t know where you’ll be tomorrow…
Well so far it is all fine, but then comes a company that people do trust, and whose attempting to “organize the world’s information” (including your own), and what do they do? they erase their own blog (by mistake). So for those of you who could not reach Google’s official blog the other night, they wrote:
We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.
Yes, it is your bad! They didn’t even know that they erased it until the next day, and in the meantime? This guy took adventage and re-registered the address and posted:
Google, fix your blog pleeasssee!
(P.S. Just to clear things up, I’m not associated with Google at all. I just wanted to take advantage of this before someone else with less worthy intentions did. The username was giving a 404, so I tried registering a new blog with it. Surprisingly, it worked. Oh, and no posting URLs in the comments or else they’ll be deleted.)
And then he said Muahahahahaahahaha!!!
[Found via SEW]
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2 opinions for Google May Delete Your Blog
Zaza
Mar 30, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Hooking on “If I don’t know you and don’t trust you, I may find it hard to let you organize my phonebook, addresses or furthermore, my diary. Why? Because I don’t know where you’ll be tomorrow…
Well so far it is all fine, but then comes a company that people do trust, …”:
Here is a dilemma I have been trying to work out: would you rather trust a (search engine) company, which readily delivers your personal quiries when asked for them by a third party not in a criminal enquiry OR their competitor, who delivers partial data unwillingly, but is unable to keep their *own* personal information secure anyway?
Gilad
Apr 1, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Trust no-one. I find it hard to trust anyone with my personal information, emails, contact and so on. Today they’re cool, tomorrow they are not, and then what?
This week it was suggested that the IRS will even offer some personal information for sale to those willing to pay, you know stuff about your income, taxes, and contact information. Wonder how that’ll go…
A famous rapper wrote once “It’s just me against the world…”, certanly fits this criteria.
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