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Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by genewitch »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #45
whymauri wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto. And when I felt it was near end-of-life, I just moved it over to a more stable SSD. I'm honestly thinking I'm going to have to backup my entire G-Drive externally and wipe it (for the security of my Google account). I mean, who knows what will trigger the deletion of your Google account these days... I guess the storage I pay for is just for e-mails.

Incidentally, I’ve had more SSDs fail - or misbehave - on me than spinning-rust drives now. And I don’t just mean cheap SSDs either, but an Intel Optane 905p I own results in hundreds of PCI Express bus errors every minute when plugged-in to any ASUS motherboard I own, while a SATA Intel 530 woke-up one day completely unreadable. And throw-in a couple of Samsung SSD failures too. It’s enough to make me anxious betwee…

I keep SSDs less than half full and use trim, paranoiacly. Because of this I use an SSD for a year or two before I get a larger one, or an additional one (software and game assets keep getting larger!).

I've never had even the cheapest mwave or microcenter special ssd die. Sata or nvme m.2, nothing.

I also haven't had a spindle die in 15 years, ever since I started letting them sleep and using UPS to smooth out power.

That noise you hear is me knocking on wood pretty frantically.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by Aeolun »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #222
Aeolun wrote: post #213

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Wait, you can convert Amazon’s format to something DRM free?

It's text, even the best DRM would be foiled by OCR. It's definitely illegal in the US though.

True, but flipping through the book to copy all pages is too much effort to copy the file to my remarkable instead.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by Spooky23 »

quantumBerry wrote: post #138
filoleg wrote: post #96

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> What we really should be asking is why is google examining user data at all. Without reading into the details, I don't think that google arbitrarily examines all user files on Google Drive (and please correct me if I am wrong, but that's what I remember since the last time this discussion was had). Google only examines files that were shared with other users or were made accessible to others through a shareable lin…

A better analogy would be if you made terroristic remarks to the sporting goods clerk, and walmart banned you not just from sporting goods but the entire store. Gmail and Google Drive are just different departments of the same place. But in this case it's just that walmart zoomed in on your notebook with a security camera, saw some arabic scribbles about allah on a tank drawing you were sharing with your friend, and…

Walmart will do that. I worked at a mall bakery where some lunatic threatened to blow up the place because he was dissatisfied with the cream cheese serving size.

He was banned from all properties owned the malls parent company.

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Post by dimitrios1 »

noxer wrote: post #265

Daily reminder that you need backups Daily reminder that online stored files should be encrypted (no bot would have found anything it doesnt like) Daily reminder that google is know for this and should not be used unless for a third backup or something.

Daily reminder that a former sitting president is still banned from a major social media network yet we are blessed with updates from literal terrorists, so when another big tech co keeps their eyes open for "terrorists" you know it's a facade to impose their draconian wishes, and remind us proletariat who really is in charge.

Daily reminder that big tech is the biggest threat to democracy we face today, even bigger than some conspiracy Q theorists LARPing in the capitol.

Daily reminder that if we simply enforced our current anti-trust laws, we could disassemble the bulk of these companies, all the meanwhile distributing the opportunities and improving the economy for all.

If Microsoft deserved it in the 90s, Google sure as hell does today.

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Post by no_butterscotch »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #317
cube00 wrote: post #275

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They only gain as much power as you allow them to have. You can still use your own domain. You can still back up to external drives in your house. You can still leave encrypted copies of those drives at a friend's house.

You can still only get one or two, if you're lucky, high speed Internet service providers.

Right, in my apartment building I don't have a choice. It's all through Comcast.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by eyeball »

randomhodler84 wrote: post #272
eyeball wrote: post #232

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How’s Synology NAS? Safe local storage or can they back door in and fuck with your data?

Keep it patched. Use strong passwords. If not, a botnet will ransom it. Nothing is a substitute for Offline backups. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-warn...

ugh, that's not confidence inspiring. I'd like to get a NAS to get my data out of cloud services.

Would periodically swap out drives and store the backup ones at a relatives house.

Would keep it disconnected from the external internet other than for pulling in updates.

But this makes me nervous.

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Post by exporectomy »

It's possible he really did violate Google's "Program Policies" which are utterly ridiculous:

"If storing or distributing content related to terrorism for an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purpose be mindful to provide enough information so viewers understand the context."

So a random photo of a ute with the ISIS logo on the side might be a violation if you don't also write some commentary explaining what it's about and assuring everyone that you aren't promoting or celebrating terrorism. But where? in another file? How will a person with a link to the photo find that?

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by parrellel »

quantumBerry wrote: post #183
tyingq wrote: post #172

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Not a fan of that analogy. Walmart can't brick your home thermostat, voice assistant, tv box, cable service, federated logins to Uber, DoorDash, your email account, cloud storage account, and so on.

So you think if google really thinks you're a terrorist that they are obliged to go on supporting you? There's a big difference between having no idea terrorists use your platform, and actually supporting them by enabling those you believe to be terrorists.

I'd say when you twig to google as a violent terrorist it should escalate to a real human to check before shutting the account down and forwarding it to the FBI.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by Gigachad »

exporectomy wrote: post #327

It's possible he really did violate Google's "Program Policies" which are utterly ridiculous: "If storing or distributing content related to terrorism for an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purpose be mindful to provide enough information so viewers understand the context." So a random photo of a ute with the ISIS logo on the side might be a violation if you don't also write some commentary explaini…

As if the Google AI is smart enough to understand context anyway. If you are going to use google services, set a calendar reminder to download the takeout dump very frequently. It's pretty easy to do and saves you in these cases.

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Post by Ansil849 »

intricatedetail wrote: post #306
Ansil849 wrote: post #5

> The added grievance to this is that my drive also included my own personal family photos and my current book on the subject I mean, how many times does this need to come up for people to learn the lesson? If you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will do whatever it wants with your data, including locking you out…

If you rent a flat, can landlord take your belongings because he thinks you have drugs?

If you rent a flat without a contract, absolutely. Which is why I specifically said:

> f you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will do whatever it wants with your data

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