…The incident, which exposed users’ names, email addresses, birthdays, genders, general locations, occupations, relationship statuses, and photos, was reportedly caused by a “software glitch” …
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Gaahh! I’ve come to really hate the term “software glitch.” They are always coding or design ERRORS that were not corrected during development and testing because of testing ERRORS.
I know what I’m talking about. I’ve designed several major applications, written more than a million lines of code, and have had my ERRORS bite me in the ass a few times over the years.
“Software glitch”: tool intentionally built in so Google could clean up at our expense.
[continued] But I never hid my errors and always did my damnedest to let my customers know about them and help them recover from any damage I’d caused.
Unlike evil Google.
If you are going to write an article then WRITE one! Not just a headline… WHAT browser and who’s affected? What a waste of time.,.
So much for the ” Don’t be evil” line of Bull.
“…out of Fear Congress Would Take Action”
Congress? Take action??
You fonny gai…
@Informed: “…WHAT browser and who’s affected?”
This place can be a little bit like a box of chocolates. Sometimes you have to push your thumb into the bottom of a candy to see what’s inside it. If you don’t like it, just put it back and choose another.
Oh, and the browser company said ‘thanks for the data.’
All Google+ users were affected – possibly several dozen.
I’m not big government fan but AlphaBet.inc (Google, Youtube etc) needs to either be broken up or have some serious anti-trust/SEC regulatory investigation done. The likes of Microsoft, Alphabet and Facebook (to mention a few) have slowly but surely taken over large segments of the industry and use their size to strangle innovation by buying out smaller companies trying to get a foothold or using their size to undercut them , forcing them to close. Frankly, Amazon.Com should be looked at as well for similar business practices.
Isn’t this about the 60th “glitch” reported by big tech in the last few months?
How about we admit it was planned and part of their day-to-day operations? You think we are stupid or something???
Informed – If I have to give you every exact detail here, then what’s the point of other blogs writing articles and me linking to them?
Why didn’t you just click on the link and then come back to discuss the article instead of taking 2 minutes to write out a bitchy comment?
You know what’s a waste of time? Reading your comment. If you’re too lazy to click a link… BYE!
GOOGLE: “Just Be Evil”.
@Claudia- “Isn’t this about the 60th “glitch” reported…”
I agree with what you wrote.
I think a large part of the problem has to do with ‘controlling the narrative.’ The word ‘glitch’ obviously doesn’t mean what it used to.