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alfaomega

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    Comment #5730280

    >It’s doing everything at once, from creating the Android software running the smartphones that, through its acquisition of Motorola , it also builds... >Phones equipped with the A…

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    Comment #5729381

    Is there anything to show Microsoft does not? All we have here is a server making HEAD requests, not even GET.

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    Comment #5729377

    >You mean that nearly 3 years ago, a hosted service had employees that may have access to the databases of the services you're using? "may have access"? That's some nice word play …

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    Comment #5729297

    I am struggling to under the distinction you're trying to portray. One automatically scans your email to show related ads, another does a HTTP HEAD request to URLs for only the ser…

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    Comment #5728717

    Then they fix the bug in the REST API and move on? A HEAD causing damage is a bug.

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    Comment #5728711

    >Their hybrid peer-to-peer/client–server implementation allows for eavesdropping. This is now confirmed to be in practice. Is it possible that the communication itself is OTR, but …

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    Comment #5728707

    Why? I don't think it's encrypted in such a way that Google can't read it. References? I don't think you can trust Google with your chat and docs as well. From: http://www.wired.co…

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    Comment #5728691

    >How far does this go? Do people need to worry about microsoft IIS web servers with SSL, exchange servers? You do have to wonder if apple backdoored their IM client, below the OTR,…