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/pd [PersonRank 10]

Friday, February 10, 2006
18 years ago

I am a little distrubed.. the link index will no more point to a 127.x.x.x ip rather it will point to another domian.. that will now be housed by Google....they are going TLA level..

http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html

what tickles me is that I am getting IPv6 noise too...which I indicated here..

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/17435.html

not sure.....

me [PersonRank 8]

18 years ago #

anyone know when they're going to activate it for automatic updates through google updater?

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Looks like this version stores your files on Google's servers, as /pd indicated. With the government already trying to subpeona Google for information, this seems like a very bad idea.

George R [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

The EFF has a warning about this titled "Google Copies Your Hard Drive – Government Smiles in Anticipation".

   http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_02.php#004400

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

<< anyone know when they're going to activate it for automatic updates through google updater?

desktop 3 is only a beta

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