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.

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Doing what Google is best at

[OneHundredAndTen]

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.

Re:Doing what Google is best at

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd also add that they're the masters of half-assed implementations. They very often bring something out that's not even beta level in terms of functionality, get bombarded with requests for new features that should have been there on day one, and then take fucking forever to implement even a few of the requests.

No one should be surprised that Google+ is going away. It never came close to achieving the market penetration they wanted, and was always this weird thing over on the side among social media sites.

Re:Doing what Google is best at

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd also add that they're the masters of half-assed implementations. They very often bring something out that's not even beta level in terms of functionality, get bombarded with requests for new features that should have been there on day one, and then take fucking forever to implement even a few of the requests.

But Agile(TM) and MVP and DevOps! Surely there's no need to actually make something work. Surely all our users are Agile app appers who app apps and understand that the MVP comes first and as long as it works on the Dev's machine, everything else is Ops' problem! End users and feature requests? Pah! If it can't be done within a two-week sprint, it's not worth doing! Now, let's see what functionality we can delete or at least hide deep behind enough multiple layers hamburger menus that our metrics can then "inform" us that we don't have to support it anymore?

Vic Gundotra - Shit Midas

[L_R_Shaw]

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.

Re:Google+ still exists?

[L_R_Shaw]

Google Wave was a technology proof of concept. It never advertised as a ' killer'.

If you are using Google products, you are almost certainly using the very cool tech developed by the Google Wave team.

Shutting Down Early

[Oswald McWeany]

So there was a silver lining to Google+ getting hacked again?

Re:One sign in - all services?

[jellomizer]

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.

Re:Why even wait that long?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because Google killed Picasa to force photos over to Google+.