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Originally Posted by iCurtis
What really scared me was the whole Google Web Accelorator. (People logged in as other people on forums and things of the sort)
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I was using the Web Accelerator, but it sometime's it would crash and I couldn't get to any web sites without disabling it. As far as people getting logged onto other peoples accounts at forums, that's a result of insecure forums. The forum used a GET method to log the user in (the URL would be constucted such as login.php?username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD), since the GET variables were a part of the URL, Google cached them, but because the GET variables weren't an actual URL, Google just appended them to everyone that visited login.php. I'm pretty sure Google stopped caching GET info, but that could have been avoided by using POST.
For people who use that, Google also knows what pages you go to
Just found the new "Froogle Shopping List", now Google knows what you need to buy
Looking through slashdot, now Google has a 3D model of the Earth!
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/2...tid=95&tid=159
EDIT: I just installed Google Earth, and it is by far one of the best programs I have seen to date. This thing is
amazing. Imagine Google Maps, for the whole world, in 3D (some areas). You can hook it up to your GPS system to see where you are, you can toggle on/off locators that tell you were stuff is in the city. Search for Burger King in Watertown, CT. Search for Gas in Niagara, NY. I can't believe how powerful this is.