[vox] orkut is evil

[Karsten M. Self]

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on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:27:56PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org) w=
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> just in case there are people who haven't seen it yet:
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>    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35375.html
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> do a google search.  you'll find some interesting stuff about orkut
> (and, unfortunately, google).

Orlowski somewhat has it in for Google, though I'm not always sure what
his gripe is.

The  other quote he tossed out a few days back was:

    People really aren't going to trust them if they view these
    start-ups as honeypots for future marketroids to reap everything we
    didn't want them to know. Let alone allow a passing hacker to scarf
    up this potential archive of great exploitable value.=20
    -- Andrew Orlowski, on Orkut, Friendster, and ilk.

(from my .sig rotation).  Given that I've worked in some pretty spooky
data collection systems, I try to avoid them where I can.


Still, I can't figure out for the life of me why they didn't call it...


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=2E.. Go'ogle

;-)


Peace.

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Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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