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Security Fears Over Google Accelerator

Posted by Zonk on from the road-to-hell-is-paved-with-web-caching dept.

Espectr0 writes "A software tool launched by Google on Wednesday that speeds up the process of downloading Web sites (covered recently on Slashdot) has caused some users to worry about their privacy. A ZDNet article discusses problems that users have been experiencing with the information that is cached by the software. On a Google Labs discussion group, one user said that 'I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know...'" Commentary also available on Signal vs. Noise and BlogNewsChannel.

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  1. I, for one, welcome by xmas2003 · · Score: 4, Funny

    our new Google Overlords

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    1. Re:I, for one, welcome by biglig2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, you say that now, but if I uninstall accellerator I bet you'll say something different.

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    2. Re:I, for one, welcome by Sinus0idal · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even more worrying, Google has two left hands.

  2. Google Privacy-b-gone! by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 5, Funny

    'I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know...'

    thats not a bug, its a feature.

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    1. Re:Google Privacy-b-gone! by zwilliams07 · · Score: 1, Funny

      'I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know...'

      Hmmmm... *runs to pornsites*

  3. Aaaaaaaah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its true its true! People are logging on this account and acting like me on this account on /. but it really isnt me! Imposters!

  4. Re:All Together Now... by Chyeld · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are their names Louise and Rosey?

  5. Re:Looking suspicious... by frkiii · · Score: 3, Funny

    Answer:

    No. This isn't the article your'e looking for. You can go about your business. Move along, move along. :P

  6. Re:All Together Now... by Chicane-UK · · Score: 5, Funny

    As for me, I used the 3.7 minutes I've saved so far to spend some quality time with my friends.

    Rosie Palm and her 5 sisters? ;)

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  7. Time to try this out on EBAY! by Thud457 · · Score: 4, Funny

    SEE?!!! I told you that if these corporate identity thefts kept up, we'd all end up having the same identity!

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  8. Here's the fix.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://search.msn.com/

  9. Re:All Together Now... by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 4, Funny

    >As for me, I used the 3.7 minutes I've saved so far to spend some quality time with my friends.

    Rosie Palm and her 5 sisters? ;)

    Probably, but then what about the other 3.2 minutes?

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  10. Re:Does this surprise anyone? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    It all makes sense now.
    /.ers are worried about TFA actually being downloaded to their machine, diminishing the /. effect and utterly wrecking their cred.
    I, for one, think that in Soviet Googlia, cache prefetches you .

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  11. Re:All Together Now... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah yes... the Palm sisters. I know them well.

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  12. Re:I have another concern though by apoc.famine · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm doing a report on web statistics for school. Could you tell me what percentage are crap?

    T/Y...

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