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Google Buzz bug exposes user geo location

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Google Ate My Children

What is it with El Reg and Google? Have they p!ssed in your kettle or what?

Why don't you just rename your domain wehategoogletheyaretrulyevil.co.uk?

Oh my lordy, I was buzzing yesterday and today. That'll have given away my geolocation and the people in the black helicopters will now be able to find me and use my credit card details to buy their fuel. Hide under the desks until they go away.

Security lapse my @rse. I warn you, you're beginning to sound silly.

As I said to the MS salesman who failed to persuade me to live.com instead of Google Apps: "The good news is, you're not paranoid. The bad news is, because everyone is out to get you."

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Google Buzz leaves privacy concerns ringing in ears

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Google mania?

This makes very interesting reading:

http://www.google.com/buzz/dclinton/XxER6oP4WGe/The-best-way-to-get-a-sense-of-where-the-Buzz-API

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FUD Mongers unite

What's the personal security flap about?

Mine has been set up with all the public options switched off, I had to edit my profile to switch them on - which I didn't.

It's just another facebook/twitter pile of badger's paws with slightly better multi-media. It's drawback is it seems to be gmail users only?

If you don't like buzz, switch it off. If you don't like gmail, use another provider. If you don't like Google, use another search engine etc. Nobody's forcing anyone here.

Conspiracy Theories: Idle rumours, conjured by dullards, who fear the truth, and try to find patterns amongst the chaos, because they find comfort in the idea that someone is in control of events.

What nonsense next? Google Wave floods New Orleans [again]? Google ate my children? Google cloud found on Mars?

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Linus Torvalds doesn't hate the Googlephone

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Linuxphone

Liking a phone because it's "linux" is like liking a beer because it's "barley'.

Don't get me wrong, I like the android and am looking forward to trying out the Nexus One, but not because it's running on forking linux.

It's no surprise to me that Linus hates phones - nearly all the unix/linux fans I have encountered seem to prefer to avoid human/social interactions. For them putting Linux on a phone must be like eating lunch off a fresh cowpat.

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