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Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak (theverge.com)
Google+ has suffered another data leak, and Google has decided to shut down the consumer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. From a report: Google+ will now close to consumers in April, rather than August. Additionally, API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days. According to Google, the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to developers, even if their account was set to private. Apps could also access profile data that had been shared with a specific user, but was not shared publicly.
Now I'm wondering if this will affect Google Hangouts, Google Drive, and other such amenities...?
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Shutting down projects. Either they have the attention span of a six-year-old, or they are largely useless. Another possibility is useless managers (an oxymoron?) desperate to justify their useless jobs.
So in case of google, we call "getting hacked" as "data leak" or was this a feature that got discovered magically ?
I have no idea how this clown got hired by Google and then been put in charge of trying to create a social network. Everything he touches is shit or is turned into shit.
One just has to watch this living and breathing manifestation of failure to see that he is the exact opposite of someone you want creating a social network.
So there was a silver lining to Google+ getting hacked again?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
The article said Google+ has been hacked not the Single Sign-in feature.
If someone is going to hack a system, they will rarely ever do it by breaking the login screen, as their are often security holes around it that are for a good hacker, easier then trying to break the most front facing feature.
I expect the real issue with Google+ is Google just stopped caring for it years ago, and just let stuff rot.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Why are they waiting that long? Because they are idiots, that's why.
The first time they tried to shutter Google+, it took Youtube down for 2 hours.
Turns out vital features in Youtube were linked with G+.
They still are, now, as a bunch of pages in Youtube simply do not work.
Youtube are hardly the smartest bunch around. In fact, they are some of the most incompetent.
Never mind the fact they integrated core components of Youtube with G+, their shitty "AI" can reflag videos that were human vetted as being perfectly advertiser-friendly content. Multiple times
They are clueless. Absolutely clueless. The kind of developers you expect to have a permanent StackOverflow tab open in Chrome. Full-potato tier developers.
The rest of Google are no different, besides a few niche areas of the company who are pretty much just using Googles huge finances for their own personal gain until they piss off in X years and "join" a new company run by a friend who has been getting the very same research you have been doing, if not better.
Wouldn't surprise me, many higher-up ex-Googlers have left and started their own companies, or joined others made by friends.
I keep hearing about this Google+, is it something new?
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
That's because Google killed Picasa to force photos over to Google+.
I've been in the habit of cross-posting stuff to FB and G+. I don't think this "breach" would have affected me, as my profile is already public. I also have a ham license, and at least one domain without "privacy" service on the WHOIS data, and listed my real home address as my registered address last time I ran for office, and use my real name as my Wikipedia handle, with my birth year listed on my user page.
There's probably a way to subscribe to some of the stuff I was following on G+ by direct push, or on FB. I have other contacts who had been active on G+ in the past but have already gone dark there, I haven't figured out where they moved to (if anywhere) yet.
There's a change.org petition asking for Google to keep G+ open, if anyone agrees they should.
Lets play a Kurzwail for a moment ;)
2020 - Google buys Slashdot
2021 - Slashdot is integrated with Gmail and Youtube
2024 - Google announced that they will shut down Slashdot within 4 months
Hey Google, Instead of just taking your ball and going home, why don't you just fucking fix the problem?
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I'd rather blame whoever was on Google+ team. Can you imagine the repercussions if Gmail (or Google Drive) was ever compromised? It's one thing to consent to algorithmic scanning of messages for advertising purposes; it's quite another to have potentially personal and confidential correspondences and documents exposed to malicious actors.
Seriously, what is the case for leaving this open until April instead of just shutting it down now, at least external access?
There are a lot of people still using it. They're exploring options on where to move next and trying out other places, but Google+ has become their home. I like that Google announces the closing of Google+ well in advance.
It's funny, I remember a lot of people in the photo community being really into Google+ when it first launched. It seemed pretty clear to me it was not going to make it though.
It could easily have made it if Google had handled it better. It was the best social network for a while, but Google kept sabotaging it, and seemed to have goals that didn't align with what Google+ was.