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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. But... by cccpkgb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It works with Firefox!

  2. Re:I, for one, welcome by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The jargon file entry is mildly interesting:
    http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/I/I-for-one-welco me-our-new-X-overlords.html

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  3. Re:No cookies! by cmburns69 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Haven't you heard?

    Cookie monster has partially given up cookies!

    His song is no longer "'C' is for cookie (that's good enough for me)", but "Cookies are a sometimes food.".

    What has this society come to!

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