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IMO the problem was putting the pop up on the IRI consultants website. She wasn’t protecting anyone or informing anyone of policy, she was being inflammatory and I don’t see it as a stretch for G to say she abused her position to inject that message.


It's inflammatory for Google to retain an anti-labor union cracking firm.


Perhaps. But that doesn’t make her action any less so.

She’s not a victim. She made a choice (which I personally agree with and find admirable) but the firing seems justifiable.


It's justifiable because that's where the discourse is. If the discourse shifts, Google would be in a tough spot.


I’m happy to see this comment. I guess I don’t really care if Google wants to succumb to NIH syndrome and build this themselves, but they should at least acknowledge the person whose idea they are repackaging.


Why? Did Apple acknowledge all the PDAs that came before iPhone? Did Spotify acknowledge subscription music services like Rhapsody from 2003? Did Flickr mention Smugmug?


No they went and rolled their own in true Google fashion


When you’re google size and investing engineering and cryptography resources into building security features, applied at scale to a billion* users, you probably want assurance that this list will he maintained for as long as you want it to be maintained, AND for no third parties like HIBP to enumerate over all google emails.

* random number.


Google does not have a very good record of maintaining their non-core projects.


Publicly, yeah. But you really think google would depreciate some core internal service actively used for account security, as well as internal employee security?


wtf are Other Bets?


There’s a company restaurant?


I must work at the same place


Omg could you imagine the toddler sitting there, waiting for a request and then banging out a random password of the right length


well, he could continue banging, and you stop recording when you have enough. now add a realtime api that makes the characters appear as typed, and relay the sound heared from the keyboard and baby and you have a perfect setup.


It literally says it’s going to send links to Google Safe Browsing and Tencent Safe Browsing in the Safari setting page under “Safari and Privacy”


That’s not what it says.


Which one of these comments is right? You both can’t be.


> Before visiting a website, Safari may send information calculated from the website address to Google Safe Browsing and Tencent Safe Browsing to check if the website is fraudulent. These safe browsing providers may also log your IP address.

This is quite different from sending links.


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