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Offline MattGSX

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Take all of my personal info, Google!
« on: February 26, 2010, 02:04:04 PM »
So I went through, added my work email accounts to my gmail account so I can send and receive mail all from the same inbox, set up Google Voice so I can receive calls/vm/texts while on campus, started doing all of my homework through Google Docs, and use my Google account for just about everything.

It's a good thing that Google doesn't keep extensive databases of all information that goes through Google, that Google never gets hacked, or that Google doesn't have a huge anti-terrorism consulting contract with NSA. Fuck.

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Re: Take all of my personal info, Google!
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2010, 02:30:59 PM »
I've had friends lose their Google accounts before, either by being hacked or by Google deleting their accounts for some unknown reason.  Would suck to have all that disappear at once.  I try not to put too much faith in a free service.

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Re: Take all of my personal info, Google!
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 02:45:07 PM »
And if you do always make sure you have a backup. I use GOOGLE for a lot of stuff too but I always keep up-to-date backups locally.
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Re: Take all of my personal info, Google!
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2010, 05:40:32 PM »
I also CAPITALIZE words sometimes.

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Re: Take all of my personal info, Google!
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2010, 01:38:14 AM »
I'm so GLAD you do.
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Re: Take all of my personal info, Google!
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2010, 06:49:16 AM »
Yeah, I just find it amusing that I'm so late to jump on the bandwagon. The Google Docs thing would suck to lose, but it was either that or my university's file server, and with my neighbor's router blocking certain ports incoming and outgoing (and me being unable to hack their router), that's out of the question for use at home.

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Re: Take all of my personal info, Google!
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2010, 02:20:45 PM »
I try not to put too much faith in a free service.

oh, don't worry. once we all depend on it for our basic daily functions, they'll start charging.