Hello gang,
I probably should not do what other news places are doing, but I want to address this idea of news agencies who are claiming that Google has had a breach of all of its mail customers when there probably isn’t.
This Bleeping Computer article talks about the fact that Troy Hunt, the owner of HIBP put a bunch of records in to the site which could have come from anywhere.
With that said, there is a percentage of those, 91 percent were already those that have been seen with 16.4 million never seen before in any breach. If this is true, maybe we need to ask those who are publishing stories claiming that one company is breached why they’re doing it without finding out if that is true.
Stories like those, does nobody any good, and this article says that as well.
Now, I do remember that story that we did publish from Krebs, where I even took it apart and asked questions. If it wasn’t Krebs, it was somewhere else; sorry Brian. Come to find out, wherever that story came from, whether it was Krebs or not, became false and there was some backlash.
I may blog, but I really think about whatever it isI’m reading, and some, I may read and not blog at all. If it sparks my interest, seems a little off, I’ll blog it in such a way where I’ll say that this seems a little off. But I’m not going to write something based on something I hear like 183 million pieces of data added to HIBP and claim that it is one company.
What a joke!
Google disputes false claims of massive Gmail data breach is the article that you’ll want to read if this interests you.
As discussed within the article, this isn’t Google’s first go-around where they had to come out and say that some breach they didn’t have wasn’t thirs. They aught to know, although sometimes they may not, but experts know better than I do.
Have fun with this article.
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Well we don’t need this fucking shit here.
There was an article on ai and news articles and how we shouldn’t use it.
Google being breached is serious business.
Its not just their emails, their accounts are linked to just about everything from their mobile os to calendars and the like.
Everything is linked through google.
The hit they would take for any breach is massive.
A lot of us don’t even use isp mail now days.
If this were to happen, just about all our ids would be history, mine included.
The fact you can post fake scare mungering stuff up here is beyond me.
I don’t exactly do it but I rarely listen to news and only read the government controled sites.
And yeah I am fully aware that government control doesn’t mean fuck all these days but its better than nothing!
In fact I know many that don’t even listen to the news and just continue living their lives.
And even a few that will disreguard anything else though my push is if there is a real emergency I will be notified.
I will be going away for a vacation in the next few days and for the last few years at least 4 I have left my laptop at home and am seriously thinking of going non portable.
Unless I am away for more than a month or 2 I won’t need my devices.
My phone is on a non payed plan, which I only use for sms and calls from time to time.
Whats app and weather and a few other things not email even are handled via the wiifi at a location.
In some places even I don’t even have that active.
I do have a digital audio recorder to record my diary and a small daisy player that plays audio and radio dramas on a sd card and the thing has both standard and solar powered abilities.
My goal though is to use this as extreme emergency device.
While on the road, I don’t listen to the radio not even in transit.
If I am remote like away in another country I have a piece of crap am/fm radio which has vary few stations and thats all I use it for.
I have not used it as yet but I also have a powerfull digital radio for portable use I payed with all mycash I earned from online jobs from the us but I have not as yet needed to bother with it.
I haven’t planned this exactly but if it gets to much, I know I can delete my gmail address if its to much and 99.9% of my identity will be deleted.
Maybe I will do that when I know I am about to die.
I came in before the net and if it becomes to much, I will turn it off.
We don’t need more drama, all the wars and our own drama global warming and what we are doing to eachother never mind all the weather and planetary events we either generate or have is bad enough.
We certainly don’t need this fucking extra hoisted on us.
Granted half of this is our doing but it doesn’t make it even less.