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Dropbox Dropquest II
Many of you were around for last year’s Dropquest, where we sent y’all on a magical journey through Dropbox and the interwebs. Wordokus were solved, music puzzles were deciphered, origami cranes were folded, and dragons were slain. All in all, nearly half a million Dropquesters were rewarded for their craftiness, skill, and effort. That was …
Google Street View Wifi Snooping Cover-Up
Image Courtesy Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The engineer who wrote the code to capture the data told his managers about it. He told his colleagues about it. He wrote the code in his “20% time” – the “spare” time that Google allows staff to do projects that interest them – and it was then incorporated into …
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IKEA Cardboard Camera
The disposable cardboard camera that we once used to know, is back. Smaller form. USB-Pluggable. Still cardboard. From the same IKEA that also builds sewing machines and TVs Clever move by IKEA, as they’ll most likely sell a truckload of these (imagine taking these to a festival, or giving one to your kids). IKEA Cardboard …
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Google Drive’s Privacy Policy
Google Drive’s Privacy Policy compared to the other players out there. In short, Google is giving itself all the permissions it could possibly need to run all of Google services, with the specific limitations that it doesn’t own anything you upload and it can’t use your data beyond running its services. Also: Dropbox’s language is …
Man DDOSes his S3 bucket by adding its images in a Google Spreadsheet
I login to my AWS account to see what is going on, and I see this: $1177.76 in usage charges! A thousand, one hundred, seventy seven dollars. Out of which $1065 in outgoing bandwidth transfer costs. The scary part: 8.8 Terabytes of outgoing traffic! Tera. Not Giga. Terabytes. To make things worse, I realized that …
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Google Drive
As expected, the service will offer 5GB of storage space for documents, videos, photos, PDFs and other files, and Google Docs is built-in to the service. Users will be able to upgrade to 25GB of space for $2.49 a month, 100GB for $4.99 a month, or 1TB for $49.99 a month, and upgrading to a …