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Do you really think burglars could not get their hands on leaked government agency database?

This is just another excuse to throw feces at Google, and HN commenters just don't miss any possible opportunity to do that.



strawman and goalposts. PP said google's database, not government databases.

google data breach in last 30 days: http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/password...

inside job at home security company in last year: http://www.wbng.com/news/state/198129651.html


Calling that a Google data breach is a pretty big misrepresentation; keyloggers installed on user machines collected passwords typed into a number of websites, including Google's.

(disclaimer: I work for Google, have no special knowledge of the incident in question)


Then the absolute safest thing to do is never give any information to any third party for any reason.

Except that's impossible to actually implement, or manage, and makes your life so much harder for questionable benefit.




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