Zoli Erdos: “AOL, in blatant violation of its users privacy just released the log of 3 month’s worth of searches by 650,000 users. Not to the DOJ, but for open download by anyone.”
Luckily, I’ve never used AOL for search. Almost always used Google and it seems at least they take their users’ privacy a bit more seriously. Still, this makes me shudder at the prospect that the US DoJ could one day force them to release the same kind of information.
While I ponder at the implications of this, my first move is to immediately unsubscribe from AIM, which I used as my primary IM network. I wouldn’t want to wake up one day and find my chat logs “anonymized” and downloadable on the net.
So, starting from today, I’m not reachable on AIM anymore. You can still reach me on Google Talk as ugo.cei__AT__gmail__DOT__com.
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I totally agree AOL take the privacy more seriously. But I am not sure AIM is at risk right now. If it is, I bet you will see a lot more juicy stuff there.
I’m not implying AIM is at risk right now. But given how much they value their users’ privacy, I’m not taking more risks than necessary.
I’m very skeptical of war in the name of religion. I’m no big fan of religion but people who invoke religion in the pursuit of horrible causes are usually trying to mask horrible motives.
For example most of the wars between christians and muslims in Spain were largely prosecuted in the name of religion but they were purely about power and money. Charlegmaine for instance was paid to attack muslim spain by muslims in Damascus, but that’s not what he told the troops of course.